1389: Do you want to bet?
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/08/22
The question: What is one willing to sacrifice for one’s hermeneutic lens? I do not see these people as willing to pursue these aims as a life project. Therefore, they become culturally seasonal. As Cornel West notes, what are we willing to stake our lives on, which is to say, “Our narratives”? Learning how to live by learning to die; paradoxiform living by dying well: Paradox resolved by Being. Margaret Atwood wrote one time, “In the end we’ll all become stories.” I mean them as good quotes without much regard for source, as the ideas matter more for the point: Hermeneutics as a wager.
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