In 1846, Søren Kierkegaard wrote, “All religiousness is rooted in being moved, in being shaken, in qualitative pressure on the springs of subjectivity.” Kierkegaard’s observation seems relevant to these diaries of Dorothy Day, most of them previously unpublished, because they offer deeper access to the subjective wellsprings of Day’s compelling religious life. Day has (...)
November 07, 2008
Books
Quiet Terrors, Quiet Joy
The Duty of Delight The Diaries of Dorothy DayEdited by Robert EllsbergMarquette University Press, $42, 700 pp.
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