Activity

Figure of transcendence surreptitiously reintroduced in immanence

as a fatum without a god

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