René Girard, "Clausewitz and Hegel" in Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre, trans. Mary Baker (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2010), p. 41.
The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Girard on the Future of Europe
"This kind of French positivism, which still lingers today, is all the more ridiculous in that it refuses to see that France has not been among the 'superpowers' leading the world since 1940. Either Europe will emerge as a whole, or its components will become pathetic specks of dust, like the Greek cities under the Roman Empire and the Italian status until Napoleon III."
René Girard, "Clausewitz and Hegel" in Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre, trans. Mary Baker (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2010), p. 41.
René Girard, "Clausewitz and Hegel" in Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre, trans. Mary Baker (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2010), p. 41.
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