We should not shy away from being committed/activist humanists if we care about life on this planet.
“We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people.” amen brer West
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I was struck, as I would be, by Butler’s focus on the work that terms do in an author’s work and wondering what work they may do, or not, for us.
A welcome bit of pragmatism and a rejection of the haunting influences of biblical hermeneutics that attribute Logos to words.