Comments on: Violence and Agency http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2005/07/08/violence-and-agency/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: savitri http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2005/07/08/violence-and-agency/comment-page-1/#comment-245 savitri Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:17:00 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=55#comment-245 This is so wonderful - thoughtful, moving, and brilliantly insightful. You are always amazing to read. I want to thank you for the help you have given me in shaping my thoughts and understanding. I have been reading your blog almost since its inception, and it has imparted so much to me. I am so grateful that you take the time to write here. Thank you. This is so wonderful – thoughtful, moving, and brilliantly insightful.

You are always amazing to read. I want to thank you for the help you have given me in shaping my thoughts and understanding. I have been reading your blog almost since its inception, and it has imparted so much to me.

I am so grateful that you take the time to write here. Thank you.

]]> By: Russell Arben Fox http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2005/07/08/violence-and-agency/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Russell Arben Fox Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:44:23 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=55#comment-221 "We understand, and should believe, that death and suffering that comes from the direct, intentional, deliberate agency of human individuals is categorically different from either natural disaster, the abstract consequences of collective human action, or the accidental and unintended consequences of individual action." So eloquent, and so right. This is the finest bit of writing I've read on the larger meaning of our predicament in quite a long time. Thank you, Tim. “We understand, and should believe, that death and suffering that comes from the direct, intentional, deliberate agency of human individuals is categorically different from either natural disaster, the abstract consequences of collective human action, or the accidental and unintended consequences of individual action.”

So eloquent, and so right. This is the finest bit of writing I’ve read on the larger meaning of our predicament in quite a long time. Thank you, Tim.

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