‘Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm,’ he wrote in 1846, ‘and shrewdly lapsing into repose.’ Passion in this sense is about bringing one’s whole self to what o...

See my 3 Quarks Daily post, Heidegger and the Reluctant American here!! Above photograph by Karen Knorr, The Witness, Humayun's Tomb, Delhi

Happy to learn that the great Andrew Sullivan noticed my cocktail party talk (too bad I have never been to a cocktail party tho) :)   To meet Proust would have been delicious and the sight of John the Baptist incredible, and yet, in ...