: ""People are in search of identity, mostly, today. I would say, for heaven’s sake, if they find their identity, then they are really dead. That’s the one thing they must not find. They must remain open, knowing that they have no identity except in that tension."

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"People are in search of identity, mostly, today. I would say, for heaven’s sake, if they find their identity, then they are really dead. That’s the one thing they must not find. They must remain open, knowing that they have no identity except in that tension." - Voegelin, CW33:364 so much Bergson!

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generally, Bergson's Two Sources doesn't get near enuf attention. like, glaringly missing in H Joas' bk on The Genesis of Values. as Lefebvre & White show, the bk is among the great alternatives to Durkheim.

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