To be a philosopher you need only three things. First, infinite intellectual eros: endless curiosity about everything. Second, the ability to pay attention: to be rapt by what is in front of you without seizing it yourself, the care of concentration—in the way you might look closely, without touching, at the green lacewing fly, overwintering silently on the kitchen wall. Third, acceptance of pathlessness (aporia): that there may be no solutions to questions, only the clarification of their statement. Eros, attention, acceptance. Gillian Rose, Paradiso, 2015:45

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #GillianRose:

Eros, attention, acceptance."

- #GillianRose, 'Love's Work'

"To be a #philosopher you need only three things.

- #GillianRose, ‘Love’s Work’‬

A photograph of Gillian Rose, underneath the words "Legacy Library."

Today is the birthday of 20th-century British philosopher Gillian Rose, who for many years held the chair of social and political thought at the University of Warwick. Her personal library has been cataloged on LibraryThing as one of our Legacy Libraries. #GillianRose #💙📚 #Booksky

To be a #philosopher you need only three things.
First, infinite intellectual #eros: endless curiosity about everything.
Second, the ability to pay #attention: to be the care of concentration.
Third, acceptance of pathlessness (aporia).
Eros, attention, acceptance.

- #GillianRose, 'Love's Work'

Elliot Wolfson – Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Opening panel with Profs. Nick Gane and Nigel Tubbs

This evening's Keynote, with Prof. Elliot Wolfson www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/facul...

#gillianrose #crmep

@nickgane.bsky.social
@swedenborghouse.bsky.social

To be a #philosopher you need only three things:

first, infinite, intellectual #Eros, endless curiosity about everything;

second, the ability to pay #attention, to be the care of concentration;

third, acceptance of pathlessness ( #aporia)

- #GillianRose, ‘ #Love’s Work’

O que significa dialética do esclarecimento?
Por Gillian Rose
Considerações sobre o livro de Max Horkheimer e Theodor Adorno.
aterraeredonda.com.br/o-que-signif...
#aterraéredonda #GillianRose

Ooh, will add Tessa Hadley to my queue - haven't read any of her work yet! And funerals on my mind these days -

I'm gradually reading "Loss" edited by #ElspethBarker and thinking back on "Love's Work" by #GillianRose from last year's #NYRBWomen23 .

For those in #London: Samir Gandesha will deliver The 4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, Thursday, 19th October, at 6pm. "Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment?"

More details: www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/...

#GillianRose #CriticalTheory