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Common Knowledge 2009 15(3):340-347; DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-016
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Apology for Quietism: A Sotto Voce Symposium Part 3

Introduction: The Promise of Apathy

Jeffrey M. Perl, A. W. Price, John McDowell, Matthew A. Taylor, Caleb Thompson and Douglas Mao

This essay is the journal editor's introduction to part 3 of an ongoing symposium on quietism. With reference to writings of James Joyce, Francis Picabia, J. M. Coetzee, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Elaine Pagels, and Karen King—and with extended reference to Jonathan Lear's study of "cultural devastation," Radical Hope—Jeffrey Perl explores the possibility that the fear of anomie ("anomiphobia") is misplaced. He argues that, in comparison with the violence and narrowness of any given social order, anomie may well be preferable, and, in any case, may be no more than another name for quietism.


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