#209 - William Desmond - Is There a Sabbath for Thought?


Author or Editor: William Desmond
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0-8232-2372-8

Pages: 364
Size: 3,37MB


I remember a time when to mention God or religion in the company of advanced intellectuals was like mentioning sex in a prudish Victorian drawing room. An icy silence would descend, and the silence communicated more than overt argument possibly could: we do not now talk of these things. I have an acute memory of this—for it is within my living memory. And now? There are those I remember who danced in Dionysian sandals but who now wear the penitential rags of ethics. I know dancers who have become sandwich-board ad men for capitalist greed—handsomely waged for their conversion to what the times require.

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