I began my career as a historian examining how late-Victorian authors in English Canada represented the process of growth. (1) They believed in something contemporary historians came to call “creative repression”: We grow by denying ourselves. The body was seen as a fixed energy system. If we wasted our energy physically, we’d pay for it […]
Culture and Philosophy
If culture is an organization of ideas, where does philosophy fit into it? Philosophy is a systematic look at or overview of a thing or event. It’s one grouping of ideas within a culture. We call it a “discipline.” The emphasis is on the systematic approach to the work and the umbrageousness of the view […]