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Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:56:31 -0800 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:56:31 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/37026/The%2DAutodidact%2DProject%2Dand%2DSelected%2DQuotations%2DTherefrom <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/cynlasch.html" title="When jobs consist of little more than meaningless motions, and when social routines, formerly dignified as ritual, degenerate into role playing, the worker—whether he toils on an assembly line or holds down a high-paying job in a large bureaucracy—seeks to escape from the resulting sense of inauthenticity by creating an ironic distance from his daily routine.">"Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine" by Christopher Lasch</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/comparedtowhat.html" title="The President, he's got his war Folks don't know just what it's for Nobody gives us rhyme or reason Have one doubt, they call it treason We're chicken-feathers, all without one gut (God damn it!) Tryin' to make it real — compared to what? (Sock it to me, now)">Compared to What by Eugene McDaniels as performed by Les McCann</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/cynicslo.html" title="...Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered.">What Is Cynical Reason? Peter Sloterdijk Explains</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/rilke1.html" title="For our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its being may rise again, ''invisibly'', in us. We are the bees of the Invisible.">Rainer Maria Rilke on Being and the Transitory</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/einstn1.html" title="Exaggerated respect for athletics, an excess of coarse impressions which the complications of life through the technical discoveries of recent years has brought with it, the increased severity of the struggle for existence due to the economic crisis, the brutalization of political life--all these factors are hostile to the ripening of the character and the desire for real culture, and stamp our age as barbarous, materialistic, and superficial.">Albert Einstein on Intellectuals and the Masses, Specialization and the Division of Labor, and the Quality of Life</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/adorno2.html" title="The corny exoticism of such decorative world views as the astonishingly consumable Zen Buddhist one casts light upon today's restorative philosophies.">T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/FS1.html" title="INDIAN 1: Well, I think it’s about time . . . the way the corn’s been growing for the last two or three generations . . .INDIAN 2: Look at that herd of Buffalo. They’re ready. INDIAN 1: Everything’s living the Great Spirit’s way. In harmony. INDIAN 2: He’ll be here soon. INDIAN 1: The true white brother’s coming home. Remember what the Great Spirit said? If we did what we were supposed to do and lived according to the plan? White brother would finish his work in the East and come back to us. INDIAN 2: It’ll be nice to have the family together again. CONQUISTADOR 1: Buenos Dios, amigos!">Temporarily Humboldt County</a> and <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/seinfeld1.html" title="ELAINE: Maybe she's there in spirit. How about that? GEORGE: If you're a spirit, and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies, and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she's going to want to hang around Drexler's funeral home on Ocean Parkway? ELAINE: George, I met this woman! She is not traveling to any other dimensions. GEORGE: You know how easy it is for dead people to travel? It's not like getting on a bus. One second. It's all mental.">Pondering the Spirit World with Seinfeld</a>--just a taste of <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/sitemap.html" title="Are you an autodidact, a self-educated person? Did you learn most of what matters to you on your own, even if you went to college? Are you a disgruntled student, teacher, or professor, dissatisfied with the knowledge industry and the bureaucratization of intellect? Are you concerned about the role of the intellect not just as a form of specialized professionalism but as equipment for living? Are you interested in the intellectual life of society as a whole, in its informal and extra-institutional aspects as much as in its formal institutions? Do you strive to make yourself and people around you more conscious and critical thinkers? How do you locate yourself in the universe of knowledge? If any of these questions strike a chord in you, you too may wish to benefit from the Autodidact Project.">The Autodidact Project</a> by Ralph Dumain <small>(Librarian-Archivist-Information Specialist Researcher-Scholar)</small> Can you dig it? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37026 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:56:31 -0800 adorno autodidact education einstein essay essays humbolt lasch lesmccann mccann quotes rilke selftaught sloterdijk y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/23574/Rilke%2Dquintessential%2Dpoet%2Dof%2Dlove%2Dand%2DThe%2DHistory%2Dof%2DRomantic%2DLove%2DYeah%2Dthats%2Dthe%2Dticket A post about Rilke and Romantic Love, the gift to the Western World from <a href="http://www.twbookmark.com/books/52/0316566888/chapter_excerpt14930.html" title="Among modern-day Arabs, there exists a cult of Al-Andalus (Andalusia). That domain in the Iberian Peninsula became, over the centuries, an edifice of nostalgia: A Muslim dominion had risen in the West. In its period of splendor, it knew power and grace and was a polyglot world of mixed and fluid identities. It nurtured secular philosophy; it spawned its own poetry. - from Foud Ajami's review of The Ornament of The World: How Muslims, Christians, and Jews Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain By Maria Rosa Menocal for the Washington Post">The Ornament of The World</a>, al-Andalus, the high civilization of Muslim Spain, via the <a href="http://www.hermes.gen.nz/troubadors.htm" title="One of the most delicate and fascinating developments in the story of Eros arose in the late eleventh century in Southern France among the Court poets who were called The Troubadours. They not only developed a new genre of literature but also a completely new idea of human love; even a new idea of the human individual. They added something original to our human world. The influence of the Troubadours spread all over Europe and lasted for several centuries, in fact right up to our own times. They really invented the idea of romantic love. ">troubadors</a>, who gave us this Arabian meme as the noble concept of Courtly Love, with additional reference to Denis de Rougement's <a href="http://hallpoetry.com/history_criticism/1352.shtml" title="Western man is drawn to what destroys 'the happiness of the married couple' at least as much as to anything that ensures it. Where does this contradiction come from? If the breakdown of marriage has been simply due to the attractiveness of the forbidden, it still remains to be seen why we hanker after unhappiness, and what notion of love - what secret of our existence, of the human mind, perhaps of our history - this hankering must hint at. Denis de Rougement, Love In The Western World"><i>Love In The Western World</i>, <a href="http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/andreas/de_amore.html" title="The Rules of Love 1. Marriage is no excuse for not loving. 2. He who is not jealous can not love. 3. No one can be bound by two loves. 4. Love is always growing or diminishing. 5. It is not good for one lover to take anything against the will of the other. 6. A male cannot love until he has fully reached puberty. 7. Two years of mourning for a dead lover are prescribed for surviving lovers. 8. No one should be deprived of love without a valid reason. 9. No one can love who is not driven to do so by the power of love. 10. Love always departs from the dwelling place of avarice. 11. It is not proper to love one whom one would be ashamed to marry. 12. The true lover never desires the embraces of any save his lover. 13. Love rarely lasts when it is revealed. 14. An easy attainment makes love contemptible; a difficult one makes it more dear. 15. Every lover turns pale in the presence of his beloved. 16. When a lover suddenly has sight of his beloved, his heart beats wildly. 17. A new love expells an old one. 18. Moral integrity alone makes one worthy of love. 19. If love diminishes, it quickly leaves and rarely revives. 20. A lover is always fearful. 21. True jealousy always increases the effects of love. 22. If a lover suspects another, jealousy and the efects of love increase. 23. He who is vexed by the thoughts of love eats little and seldom sleeps. 24. Every action of a lover ends in the thought of his beloved. 25. The true lover believes only that which he thinks will please his beloved. 26. Love can deny nothing to love. 27. A lover can never have enough of the embraces of his beloved. 28. The slightest suspicion incites the lover to suspect the worse of his beloved. 29. He who suffers from an excess of passion is not suited to love. 30. The true lover is continuously obsessed with the image of his beloved. 31. Nothing prevents a woman from being loved by two men, or a man from being loved by two women."><i>The Art Of Courtly Love</i></a> by Andreas Capellanus and Ab&#0251; Muhammad 'Alee ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'eed ibn Hazm's <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/al/islamicpsychology/general/nature_of_love.html" title="The fresh springing of herbs after the rains, the glitter of flowers when the night clouds have rolled away in the hushed hour between dawn and sunrise, the plashing of waters as they run through the stalks of golden blossoms, the exquisite beauty of white castles encompassed by verdant meadows-not lovelier is any of these than union with the well-beloved, whose character is virtuous, and laudable her disposition, whose attributes are evenly matched in perfect beauty. Truly that is a miracle of wonder surpassing the tongues of the eloquent, and far beyond the most cunning speech to describe: the mind reels before it, and the intellect stands abashed. Ibn Hazm - The Dove's Necklace"><i>Tawq al-Ham&#0226;mah (The Ring of the Dove)</i></a>. So, there you have it: Rilke, quintessential poet of love, and The History of Romantic Love. <i>Yeah... that's the ticket.!</i> </a> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23574 Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:07:49 -0800 Love Rilke y2karl