This thought springs from my observation of music, but I think that it has broader application to both the broader creative world and culture more generally, so I’ll state it in generic terms.
It seems that sadness, angst, anger and melancholy — in short, negative emotions — are somehow considered to be much more honest (and don’t forget that buzz word […]
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Merold Westphal is a Christian in the Reformed tradition who likes to make use of atheist philosophers to help develop what he dubs the hermeneutics of suspicion (the suspicion that we have darker motives for our truth claims) and the hermeneutics of finitude (our humanness always prevents us from seeing everything). As much as I […]
