#jerome kohn

[il-y-aaaahhhh]

In Arendt's thought the present is not ... an ephemeral transition from one moment to the next, nor is it a vantage point to adulate or denigrate the past as that which guides or drives us into the future. On the contrary, the present is a gap in the continuum of time, a gap that appears to the human mind as an abyss when there is no longer a bridge of inherited concepts to traverse it.

from Jerome Kohn's introduction to Hannah Arendt's Between Past and Future (xiii)

[linazoo]

…”the undeniable loss of tradition in the world does not at all entail a loss of the past, for tradition and past are not the same, as the believers in tradition on one side and the believers in progress on the other would have us believe

Jerome Kohn