Upon the Search of the Grail
There are only a few times that something influences me greatly. This particular interview both amazed and gratified me. Somehow the reason for my own lack of belonging is actually my non-remembrance. Sunny mornings at my grandmothers where there was one empty bedroom with only a splendid bust of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the mantelpiece, is my own heaven.
Malcolm Guite, English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest and academic, joins Matt Fradd's show to discuss Arthurian legend, the friendship of Tolkien and Lewis, and the deep human longing for mystery and enchantment. The shout that one has been robbed of culture by the last two generations is just in its relevation and truth. Nietzsche, Marx and Freud aren't evil, but they were very influencial indeed.
Like Kenneth Clark in his tv-series Civilization, a personal view, Guite offers his own thoughts that the disappointment of romanticism has left us with only heroic materialism, and it's really not enough. Derrida’s philosophy of language, deconstruction, argued that language is an unstable, ever-shifting system of signs. That's only one reason why we are left feeling as mere orphans.
I love how Guite also mentions one of my own favourite thinkers of recent past. George Steiner was an absolute delight to read at times. His book Real Presences was like dynamite that blewn away all the nihilism of the last century. His most prominent discussion of the Holocaust was with Bernard Pivot during his 1981 appearance on the legendary literary TV-program Apostrophes. Another memory almost lost.
Steiner argued that literature must confront the darkest aspects of human history—often by forcing the reader to examine the rhetoric of perpetrators. He deeply challenged the notion that the Holocaust was an isolated event, instead framing it as a catastrophic failure of Western reason and culture. Now that's what one needs to do more. After reading Aquinas no-one should be able to ridicule religious belief.
St Augustine wrote that we believe to understand, and not the other way around. The word intimacy has been corrupted too. I know hunger but that's not the actual definition of food. It's indeed not something that feeds only me nor exists out there ready made. We've somehow lost the experience how we grow intimate between human beings without an actual need for sex. It's a flower, intimacy is.
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Malcolm Guite, English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest and academic, joins Matt Fradd's show to discuss Arthurian legend, the friendship of Tolkien and Lewis, and the deep human longing for mystery and enchantment. The shout that one has been robbed of culture by the last two generations is just in its relevation and truth. Nietzsche, Marx and Freud aren't evil, but they were very influencial indeed.
Like Kenneth Clark in his tv-series Civilization, a personal view, Guite offers his own thoughts that the disappointment of romanticism has left us with only heroic materialism, and it's really not enough. Derrida’s philosophy of language, deconstruction, argued that language is an unstable, ever-shifting system of signs. That's only one reason why we are left feeling as mere orphans.
I love how Guite also mentions one of my own favourite thinkers of recent past. George Steiner was an absolute delight to read at times. His book Real Presences was like dynamite that blewn away all the nihilism of the last century. His most prominent discussion of the Holocaust was with Bernard Pivot during his 1981 appearance on the legendary literary TV-program Apostrophes. Another memory almost lost.
Steiner argued that literature must confront the darkest aspects of human history—often by forcing the reader to examine the rhetoric of perpetrators. He deeply challenged the notion that the Holocaust was an isolated event, instead framing it as a catastrophic failure of Western reason and culture. Now that's what one needs to do more. After reading Aquinas no-one should be able to ridicule religious belief.
St Augustine wrote that we believe to understand, and not the other way around. The word intimacy has been corrupted too. I know hunger but that's not the actual definition of food. It's indeed not something that feeds only me nor exists out there ready made. We've somehow lost the experience how we grow intimate between human beings without an actual need for sex. It's a flower, intimacy is.
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