the Church looks askance at excesses of zeal: the word for clerical normality, ‘idoneity’, designates the optimal point between necessary and excessive commitment
that intermediate historical phase of larval and inchoate individualism
Utterly without a telos, it is so vast and, crucially, so diffuse, so devoid of a centre
on the process of self-affection by society
who would deny the existence of constructivist projects of desire
the footnote after constructivist refers to Hayek's "The Persistence of Constructivism in Current Thought" in "Law, Legislation, and Liberty"