Sontag, Parfit, and All Things Woo

For Emmanuel Carrère, writing about other people is tantamount to torturing them. But representing a life other than your own is what makes human connection possible... more » Sontag on women. Their oppression, she came to believe, presents a problem that is aesthetic and narrative problem as well as political and economic....                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 [Open in app]( or [online]() [Sontag, Parfit, and All Things Woo]( May 26   [Share](   For Emmanuel Carrère, writing about other people is tantamount to torturing them. But representing a life other than your own is what makes human connection possible... [more »]( Sontag on women. Their oppression, she came to believe, presents a problem that is aesthetic and narrative problem as well as political and economic.... [more »]( For rationalists, nothing should interfere with apprehending the world as it is. So why are they turning to religion, ritual, and all things woo?... [more »]( Derek Parfit spent most of his life cloistered within a cloistered institution. He sacrificed nearly everything to his intellectual calling... [more »]( More than ever, we need sober thinkers who refuse to submit to the lures of fatalism or apocalypticism. We need Max Weber... [more »]( [Upgrade to paid](   [Like]( [Comment]( [Restack](   © 2023 The Chronicle of Higher Education 1255 23rd St. NW, St. 700, Washington, DC 20010 [Unsubscribe]() [Start writing]()