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The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism (Contributions to Hermeneutics Book 1)
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. . . . In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Gabriel Marcel, a Christian among the existentialists, appreciated our road-hunger. Marcel described humanity as homo viator, “itinerate man.” But he was staunchly critical of Sartre’s view of freedom. Freedom isn’t digging a tunnel to escape, he counseled; it’s digging down into yourself.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Les aspects de notre existence qui nous limitent, explique Merleau-Ponty, sont les mêmes qui nous attachent au monde et nous ouvrent un champ d’action et de perception. Ils font de nous ce que nous sommes.
Aude de Saint-Loup • Au café existentialiste : La liberté l être & le cocktail à l abricot (French Edition)
Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
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what is it that resists in me, what in me is the exact contemporary of the gravity of the trees, the uneasy brother of these beasts whose rustlings I perceive? What can I find in myself that is natural, what can I discover that isn’t in books but that I can only find by walking in solitude?