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Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life [complete] New on Academia.edu (DOC) Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life [complete]

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Part 1 - Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life
Ludwig Wittgenstein Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life (Part One) New monograph on Academia.edu...

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A Vagabond Jew from Lithuania: A Poem on Salomon Maimon
A Vagabond Jew from Lithuania: A Poem on Salomon Maimon It took a vagabond Jew from Lithuania to strike the wick that Königsberg’s sage had hid and let go out in dark’s old age. Said the synagogue’s rude son: Let there be German with a Yiddish tongue , and from his restless mind concepts flowed like fire onto the page. With quid facti? and quid juris? as his lamps, he lit the lecture halls and shadowed nooks of Europe with flame incandescent,

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Saul
The soul of the king an out-of-tune lyre with harpstrings for guts – many sharps and flats. Sent by the LORD the holy pneuma's hand...

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Seven Worlds
God turns -- and the fishes dance blue gold silver beneath a yellow sky. Another turn, the boughs of thick trees become as air: invisibly...

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Cometh the Lion
Cometh the Lion Cometh the Lion, cometh the hour. On his head is my name; on his back is my power. The time is narrow, and the...

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When We Were There
When we were there in the crooked hell of that scarlet and black room, the world was a useless idol broken and beyond repair. But now we...

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The Light in That Place
Photo credit: Rachel Posner / Posner Family Estate, courtesy of Shulamit Mansbach, Haifa, Israel / yadvashem.org “Our holiday has been...

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The Moses Tree
The Moses Tree From the tangle of its roots, To the nests in its hair The tree blazed white and blue. And the tree sang the Lord’s name...

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A Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice
And so the gods of lead and brass, The idols and their thrones, The teraphim made of fibreglass The mummified skulls and bones, Are...

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Lifting Up of the Hands
By lamp and by oil, we hunger the hours as the dusk's frost sets in. There is time: The trucks to Treblinka are not ready yet and...

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Makom
Prayer hall inside the Grand Choral Synagogue It is It is a place, It is a place, Makom, It is a place, Makom, where animal and man,...

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When He Planted in the Earth
When He planted in the earth a tree of life, a tree of death (the latter with a curse of woe) did God say that this was good? And when He...

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Yehudah, I Make You Mine
Yehudah, I Make You Mine From out of the banks of the muddy Jordan River, I make you Mine. Into shape I press the grit, into shape I...

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Tree, 1943
My roots are split & my bone-bare branches brittle. I degenerate in a cruciformed landscape. There are many like me. Perhaps it’s a sign...

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Promise to Abraham
Abraham, it is time to leave your lonely tent. Find a vacant spot in the belly of your heart and learn to fear the Lord. Stop seeking the...

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Letter to Iyov
Before I had to chance to complete my creation I was cast down by the rebel angels and made to...

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Lamech’s Revelation
Lord, I have seen the inner workings of man and I am afraid. Poor and pathetic: he is corrupted from the start, living in a blasted...

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Image, Idol, Dream
Abraham prepared a table before me Even as I spoke harshly of the desert’s hot kisses. He moistened my head with oil. “You are safe,” he...

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Ba’al T’qiah (One Who Blows the Shofar)
A storm wind comes from the hidden north filling my mouth, my lungs, with dust ...

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