sábado, janeiro 09, 2010
The fortunate fall
"A representative man. Jerry [Maguire] is a full-blooded avatar of the Protestant-Emersonian tradition that continues to flourish, often unrecognized, in American civic culture, and in its popular art as well.
He believes [...] that it is possible for apparently discrepant values and identities to be perfectly congruent. Decency, wealth, love, fame: these are not contradictory but rather mutually reinforcing expressions of that secular grace known as happiness. We are entitled to pursue it [...]
The way he learns is through adversity, a habit that makes him an illustration not only of management-philosophy boilerplate, but also of the doctrine of the fortunate fall, whereby sin is understood as beneficial because it makes redemption possible".
A.O. Scott in International Herald Tribune, 5-6 Dec 2009
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He believes [...] that it is possible for apparently discrepant values and identities to be perfectly congruent. Decency, wealth, love, fame: these are not contradictory but rather mutually reinforcing expressions of that secular grace known as happiness. We are entitled to pursue it [...]
The way he learns is through adversity, a habit that makes him an illustration not only of management-philosophy boilerplate, but also of the doctrine of the fortunate fall, whereby sin is understood as beneficial because it makes redemption possible".
A.O. Scott in International Herald Tribune, 5-6 Dec 2009
