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Enjoying Ahmed’s clarity and sharpness. Her writing on wilfulness, on what sticks out and refuses to be tamed, continues to resonate with me.

It’s so good that I keep asking myself, why hadn’t I read this before?!

According to Hubert Dreyfus, in one of his lectures, reading Heidegger itself is a kind of skilful coping!

"But the end of Mr. Brooke's pen was a thinking organ, evolving sentences, especially of a benevolent kind, before the rest of his mind could well overtake them. It expressed regrets and proposed remedies, which, when Mr. Brooke read them, seemed felicitously worded - surprisingly the right thing, and determined a sequel which he had never before thought of."

"He [Heidegger] certainly seemed to have no idea what he was putting his friends through. … It wasn't that Heidegger had a bad character, Hannah Arendt wrote to Jaspers in 1949; it was that he had no character. Sartre said a very similar thing in an essay of 1944, speaking of Heidegger's Nazism.… It is as if there were something about everyday human life that the great philosopher of everydayness did not get." (p.92)

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”