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dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I'm never sure how much "constant, low key screaming about history" should count towards the rating. If it does, this should get a five.
I do, however, think this would make a great compulsory read for anyone who is unsure about why modernism failed and postmodernism arose.
And also the tension between making things legible to the apparatuses (apparati?) of the state and being carefully attuned to particularities.
What would it look like to have both?
I keep thinking in terms of halakha and characterizing the modernist shift (drink for Haym Soloveitchik reference) away from memetic tradition to a written culture where the posek has technical knowledge that exists alongside the need for shimush (metis) to educate rabbis how to rabbi.
And in the desire to systematize, the particular gets lost, which creates a situation where rabbis will not publish or be vocal about particular opinions lest they be taken as Truth rather than contingent answers in the moment.
There is, as they say, a lot to unpack here and the most infuriating part is reading a 25 year old book and seeing how prescient it is and how much we just straight up did not learn.
It does occur to me that this book does antedate the Internet and I wonder what we have to say about communities now. Anyway, much to chew on here, especially once one gets past the incandescent rage stage of the High Modernist know-it-all with authoritarian tendencies without a population positioned to resist and, oof, does that have a lot to say about current situations.
I do, however, think this would make a great compulsory read for anyone who is unsure about why modernism failed and postmodernism arose.
And also the tension between making things legible to the apparatuses (apparati?) of the state and being carefully attuned to particularities.
What would it look like to have both?
I keep thinking in terms of halakha and characterizing the modernist shift (drink for Haym Soloveitchik reference) away from memetic tradition to a written culture where the posek has technical knowledge that exists alongside the need for shimush (metis) to educate rabbis how to rabbi.
And in the desire to systematize, the particular gets lost, which creates a situation where rabbis will not publish or be vocal about particular opinions lest they be taken as Truth rather than contingent answers in the moment.
There is, as they say, a lot to unpack here and the most infuriating part is reading a 25 year old book and seeing how prescient it is and how much we just straight up did not learn.
It does occur to me that this book does antedate the Internet and I wonder what we have to say about communities now. Anyway, much to chew on here, especially once one gets past the incandescent rage stage of the High Modernist know-it-all with authoritarian tendencies without a population positioned to resist and, oof, does that have a lot to say about current situations.