Bruce, Hey, man, thanks for commenting. Good call with Plutarch. I have been wrestling with his "On Being a Busybody" and Theophrastus' "On Character." What a one-two kidney punch to the soul that turned out to be. Trying t ...
Levinas is a gem. Sometimes it seems weird to me that we are only a few hundred years removed from the laying of hands by monarchs, the so-called royal touch. I guess that these face-to-face encounters featured their own "masks" of representatio ...
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Artful use of Levinas