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On Choosing the Life of the Mind

February 15, 2019 by Tavis Bohlinger 9 Comments

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Why, in the face of material prosperity and the endless production of greater and better goods, would anybody choose the life of the mind?

I use the definite article with purpose. There are plural “lives” of intellectual priority that one might live, whether that be as a scholar, writer, poet, editor, philosopher et al. But there is a singular habitus under which all these must be subsumed: the life.1 

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