Tag: Paul Goodman
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I will finish this book at some point this year, hopefully. There’s just so much here and I’ve been in a terrible reading slump. I’ve gotten so much from just the introduction, written by Michael C Fisher. “A man of letters knows only a little about some major human concerns, but insists on relating what…
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I remember having much more extensive notes on this book, but I still have plenty of quotes. Paul Goodman on Abstractions: “The buoyant abstractions, spoken as if miracles were for the asking, ward off pain and uneasy conscience when one is no longer going to try to do anything practical.” Paul Goodman on Absurd Ideas:…