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Book-Thoughts around the Holidays: A Letter from the Editor

 

Noisy and quiet, eventful and peaceful, always anew and yet ever the same, the Winter Holidays remain… Even when surrounded by hustle and bustle, by different tones and impressions, the holidays open up a special space and time in-between the twists and turns of life, a “clearing” in the staggering forest of life. Suddenly, for a few days, everything we are used to taking to be “life” slows and stops — everyday “necessities”, labor, commerce, and even the so-called “public sphere” halt and dissipate for an instant in the light of the holidays, where even a meal is no longer a matter of sustenance. 

In this “clearing”, one can rejoice in life with living family and friends, one can experience the meaning of the life of those no longer living, and one can can turn to reflect on life. In some special way, the holidays “reflect” life.

This is possible because life itself is something special. In fact, it is not “some thing”: life cannot be “defined” or “captured” in terms of one thing or another, nor can life even be “attached” to present living entities. Life is so much more than the fact of being alive, and being alive means so much more than the bare circumstance of living. As human beings, we are even capable of acknowledging and thinking about the life of quite other beings — like the lives of ideas, the life of history, the lives of peoples, the lives of languages and literatures, the lives of Gods, the life of the beingful world as a whole… 

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