Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
In I am an Impure Thinker, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy writes:
Society is a hell as long as man or woman is alone. And the human soul dies from consumption in the hell of social catastrophe unless it makes common cause with others. In the community that common sense rebuilds, after the earthquake, upon the ashes of the slope of Vesuvius, the red wine of life tastes better than anywhere else. And a man writes a book, even as he stretches out his hand, so that he may find that he is not alone in the survival of humankind (19).
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October 28, 2009 at 5:17 pm
We are always eager to learn how people came across the work of Rosenstock-Huessy.
October 28, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Norman,
I heard of Rosenstock-Huessy through Bogumil Jarmulak, Peter Leithart and James Jordan.
Garry
October 28, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Who would have thought that the man who defended the excommunicated theologian Joseph Wittig against a Vatican which had lost sight of the priority of simple faith over legalism in 1927 would wind up on the same page with him who was Cardinal Ratzinger and has always been the great proponent of “aierimiento”?
Life is indeed a strange and wonderful thing.
RH
October 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm
No offense meant, Garry. Any friend of Jim Jordan’s and Peter Leithart’s is some kind of friend of mine.
RH