Helgläsning
Kloka människor! Få saker är så inspirerande! Och bland de klokaste av dem alla är författarinnan Marilynne Robinson - här i en ny intervju ur The Paris Review. Läs den; om inte annat så bara för att intervjuaren mötte henne vid sex tillfällen under en femmånadersperiod då hon arbetade på intervjun. De hinner med att diskutera allt från pajrecept till Richard Dawkins.
Här ett smakprov:
ROBINSON
Religion is a framing mechanism. It is a language of orientation that presents itself as a series of questions. It talks about the arc of life and the quality of experience in ways that I’ve found fruitful to think about. Religion has been profoundly effective in enlarging human imagination and expression. It’s only very recently that you couldn’t see how the high arts are intimately connected to religion.
INTERVIEWER
Is this frame of religion something we’ve lost?
ROBINSON
There was a time when people felt as if structure in most forms were a constraint and they attacked it, which in a culture is like an autoimmune problem: the organism is not allowing itself the conditions of its own existence. We’re cultural creatures and meaning doesn’t simply generate itself out of thin air; it’s sustained by a cultural framework. It’s like deciding how much more interesting it would be if you had no skeleton: you could just slide under the door.
INTERVIEWER
How does science fit into this framework?
....
To be continued - här, som sagt.
Här ett smakprov:
ROBINSON
Religion is a framing mechanism. It is a language of orientation that presents itself as a series of questions. It talks about the arc of life and the quality of experience in ways that I’ve found fruitful to think about. Religion has been profoundly effective in enlarging human imagination and expression. It’s only very recently that you couldn’t see how the high arts are intimately connected to religion.
INTERVIEWER
Is this frame of religion something we’ve lost?
ROBINSON
There was a time when people felt as if structure in most forms were a constraint and they attacked it, which in a culture is like an autoimmune problem: the organism is not allowing itself the conditions of its own existence. We’re cultural creatures and meaning doesn’t simply generate itself out of thin air; it’s sustained by a cultural framework. It’s like deciding how much more interesting it would be if you had no skeleton: you could just slide under the door.
INTERVIEWER
How does science fit into this framework?
....
To be continued - här, som sagt.
posted by joelh at
2:46 AM
3 Comments:
Det gläder mig att du ägnar dig åt lite teologi mitt i allt valkampanjande...
takk for linken joel!
"you have to have a certain detachment in order to see beauty"
denne bloggen din har jeg lært å sette pris på. den har for meg vært en introduksjon til en ny verden av dimensjoner: internett...! im an old-time type, men innser at det kanskje er tid for oppdatering:)
hils din vakre fru!
varme hilsninger fra Bjarka,
Ann Jeanette
ludvig: ja, det är lätt att dras med för mycket i obetydligheterna :)
AJ: tack för hilsen! internet har sina sider; man får ta vara på de bra. Hoppas bjärka är fint i höstskrud! Lydia hälsar!
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