Tag: simon critchley
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Day 390 of 1000: The Power of Tragic Stories
Ideas from Simon Critchley and Anne Carson on tragedy. The tragic television series Patriot.
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Day 161 of 1000: Writing as self-immolation
Thoughts from Simon Critchley and Annie Dillard on writing as lighting one’s self on fire, becoming a wick for the sake of the flame.
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Day 152 of 1000: Being without wanting, having, and knowing
The concept of “releasement” from Meister Eckhart and Martin Heidegger. Reading the Five of Pentacles card as a card of releasement.
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Day 150 of 1000: Love as negation
To love, you must strip away your self and your ego, writes Simon Critchley in Mysticism. Iris Murdoch believed this too.