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Hey, I finished in time to join the discussion rather than toss in a few comments weeks after the discussion ends.
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(Quote) I think you’re exactly right. When I typed, “Does anyone in the book,” I thought I was restricting my question too much, but I went with it anyway, since my examples for the aesthetic and ethical,stages of faith were characters in the book. …
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(Quote) I think there are some non-theistic continuations of Kierkegaard’s absurdist project, without the particularities of Christianity. Ronald Dworkin’s religious atheism seems to fit the bill, finding inherent meaning in the universe.
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Done. Thanks for keeping the group going.
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As I considered the book as a whole, I thought of surrealist art as an analogue, but our conversation here has convinced me that absurdism is the better connection. I am not very knowledgeable about absurdist art, but I have read a considerable amou…
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All this sounds great. I just didn't know about it, as I didn't participate in that slow read.
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No apology necessary. Like I said, I wasn’t involved in that slow read, and it sounds like everyone who involved was okay with the arrangement. Sounds fine to me.
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I wasn’t part of that slow read, so I’m not affected. But I’m curious that someone can just scoop up our conversations and sell them. Did I give up the right to the intellectual property of my contributions here when I didn’t read the terms?
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(Quote) The beginning of this part of the conversation immediately reminded me of reader-response theory in literature. I assumed someone has applied it to music, and a search confirms that more than one person has. I think Stanley Fish’s concept o…
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Here I come rolling in weeks late again. I thought it was too over the top to be funny. Three incongruous comparisons at a time might have been funny, but every description included at least eight.
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I finally finished. Once the semester began, I’ve had almost no time to read for pleasure. Sorry. I don’t think I have anything to add to the discussion, but I did want to check in.
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(Quote) Heck yeah! Pass on the knowledge!
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(Quote) Hey, I’ve been in one a majority of books so far this year. :P I think.
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I’m in.
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Welcome to the new members!
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Works for me.
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I’ve read a couple of chapters, but, if I move it up in my priority list, I can be ready to discuss this weekend.
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I’m also good with a book that has been adapted into a movie, much better than the other way around. :)
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(Quote) Ditto.
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Welcome!
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I just finished The Obelisk Gate My son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter moved in with us for a few months this summer, and that cut down on my reading for pleasure. I found much more to mine in the first book than in this one, something I think…
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(Quote) Cool, I’ll look that up. Thanks.
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(Quote) I’m way behind in reading this book and in participating in this discussion. I’m just now reading this. I am currently in a play=by-post game called The Wait, in which we are playing people in a hospital room, sharing stories about the dyin…
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(Quote) I love looking for deeper meaning in texts! Even if an author does not intend deeper meanings (which some critics consider to be a fallacy anyway), there are always connections to be explored that are not on the surface. Considering that muc…
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(Quote) I don’t like to do that because I’m not always ready when a discussion goes up I like to keep my notification saved in my email for when I finish reading and am ready to join the discussion.
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(Quote) I’m not at all sorry I read this book.
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I have my notifications turned on, but I have to manually select it when new discussions get set up. Am I going about it wrong? The notification system here is not intuitive to me.
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Yeah, I didn’t know the questions were up until it was announced here.
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(Quote) I like that assessment of Brunel a lot.