Rowan Williams's fantastic lecture on Personhood can be found here
You want to, at some later date, relate this to Mary Douglas's Missing Persons, since one of the most important sources of the atomized, alienated view of the individual comes from economics. Deeply connected, one thinks, with ideas of property, "inwardness" and "alienability".
The "I' in the individual; as opposed to what Etzioni calls 'I-We'.
"What appears to someone as a desirable goal depends on what type of person one is."
---Aquinas.
You want to, at some later date, relate this to Mary Douglas's Missing Persons, since one of the most important sources of the atomized, alienated view of the individual comes from economics. Deeply connected, one thinks, with ideas of property, "inwardness" and "alienability".
The "I' in the individual; as opposed to what Etzioni calls 'I-We'.
"What appears to someone as a desirable goal depends on what type of person one is."
---Aquinas.
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b, you never cease to amaze me:on second thoughts, of course you've found Mary Douglas! Years since I read Purity and Danger - must re-visit - but some of her ideas have been absorbed into the common fabric of everyday life in my household. If someone says 'That's very Mary Douglas', or, more likely, 'Not very Mary Douglas', we know exactly what's implied.
I asked for some good news from yoour end: found this:
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121109&page=16
Thanks, C..Raza happens to be an old school friend (then he was Raza ahmed, of course...in fact, I've suggested to him that Rumi isn't big enough for him..should be something like RazaGod.
Never did get down to reading Purity but I think it's still floating around somewhere, along with natural symbols.
It's strange how names like that get woven into the day-to-day; in our case it was a relative, a literary figure, who (I think) took the swami to some swanky coffee house for intellectuals in Delhi (must check this story..sounds very implausible) when she was a kid. 'akhtar bhai' became the epitome of good manners and correct behaviour.
gotta run.
so glad to have you back here! (It's okay, not putting any pressure on you! :-))
b.
Has the Swami written about her experiences. Seems to me we might learn a great deal about the history of Pakistan/India, Partition and the legacy and effects thereof on intellectuals of that time and subsequently.
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