8/15/2009
"Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city."
-- Plato, The Republic
-- Plato, The Republic
About Me
- Name: Derwin
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
canadian, phd student, university of chicago, likes all types of music, sociology, philosophy
Links
- last.fm
- movies
- ny times
- globe and mail
- chicago tribune
- scmp
- ctv
- chicago maroon
- economist
- metacritic
- university of chicago
- sociology
- human development
- wishlist
- slate
- twittervision
- technorati
- popurls
- hype machine
- sociology
more links
- habermasians
- habermas/rawls
- threehundredeight
- A BCer in Toronto
- abegrand
- rumblelizard
- notme2000
- abegrand
- shima
- nomilk
- schlitzdrinker
- ririan project
- paul wells
- daveberta
- calgarygrit
- girl on the right
- marginal revolution
- ambermac
- spaceandculture
- i (heart) music
- p without i
- from blown speakers
- fluxblog
- overheard in ny
- damianpenny
- gpc
- bathhouse blues
- blobettes
- madlife
BLOGS
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"But we have also known for a long time that one of the reasons the
social sciences work in oblivion is that they are not getting at knowledge
that instantly makes people feel powerful and satisfied, that gives them the
sense that they are taming their world, taking command of its mystery and
danger. The science of man is the science of man's knowledge about himself: it
gives a chill in addition to a thrill – the chill of self-exposure. We may
be the only species in the universe, for all we know, that has pushed
self-exposure to such an advanced point that we are no longer a secret to
ourselves... the exposure of this secret is in many ways very unsettling."
-- Ernest Becker, The Birth and Death of Meaning
(1971)
