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Economy of Times (1965)
Volume 26. Argo, 1996.
5 Cassettes [Transcript: 79 pages]
...all modern philosophy does is to omit one little thing: sacrifice. ...the economy of our creation is a very difficult one, because it demands from you and me theas a first admission, that we are the victims in the process. God’s world cannot stand without sacrifice.
November 16, 1965
Reviewing this lecture, Richard Feringer wrote that this was both the most comprehensive and most concise expression by Rosenstock-Huessy on time and its basic meaning to society, as opposed to the meaning of time in natural science.
"Economy" has two meanings; pre-dating 1800, it meant that from the house of God, "plenty" was created out of the wilderness. After 1800, following Adam Smith and Karl Marx, it came to mean simply the production of goods and services, buying and selling. The old meaning inferred sacrifice was necessary to become a human being the new meaning inferred an avoidance of sacrifice. The old meaning also meant we must be convinced we are not wild animals and were within the House of God and were obligated to maintain an orderly house. The new meaning omitted community strictures.
The purpose of this lecture is to explore these two different meanings of economy and to re-establish an integration of the two. Five 1-hour lectures.
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