Her 1950 master's thesis, Sobre cultura femenina ("On Feminine Culture"), became a turning point for modern Mexican women writers, who found in it a profound call to self-awareness.
Birdsall's invitation stated that the "support of 'eighty-one per cent of self-identifying white evangelicals' for Donald Trump is a call to self-reflection on the current condition of Evangelicalism".
Fortunately, there are other characters, like Trish and Malcolm and Luke – who, thank sweet Christmas – offers exactly only command, even when he's Kilgraved, and it's a call to self-determination at any price.
But even this last, more modern, Lucretia is a far cry from her contemporaries on anorexia websites where the siren call to self-inflicted death is loud and clear.
Greif's primary resentment seems directed against those who dare to spend their time trying to create the next great American novel, song, movie, painting, play, performance, or even style — or trying to help their friends who are trying to do so, or even taking an interest, as their spectators and enthusiasts — rather than heeding Greif's narrow, doctrinaire call to self-abnegation.
"Fichtean philosophy is a call to self-activity," insists Novalis (FS #567).
First, Novalis is well aware that Bildung, the call to self-understanding and autonomy through an engagement with tradition and other cultures, cannot proceed by way of an appeal to formal methodology.
Philosophy as Metanoetics, the first parts of which were delivered as lectures in 1944 before the end of the war, was composed not only as a personal self-critique, but also as a call to self-critique on the part of the entire nation, and indeed ultimately as a call for an "absolute critique" of human rationality as such (see the Preface to THZ X; Tanabe 1986).
"Those intense emotions should serve as a call to self-reflection".
Lastly, this Passover night is different because it is a call to self-reflection.
Why it so damn hard to follow this critical call to self-care?
