A Justice Site
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Created: March 26, 2002
Latest Update: March 26, 2002
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Dorothy Day: A US CatholicCopyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, March 2002.
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Dorothy Day epitomizes the social worker who strives for social justice and peace. I have included this file for the profound sense it conveys of her love for humanity. I fell in love with her story of Ammon, and with her understanding that she cannot judge from her own perspective what seemed to move him. "Who can understand another, who can read another's heart?" But to the extent that we can, there have we learned to reach out to the Other, as well as the stranger in ourselves.I know this doesn't fit the traditional academic definition of postmodernism, but the academy's view is distorted by so many conflicts. Dorothy Day's willingness to love and respect Ammon, is the essence of the postmodernism I teach: the recognition that there is no central neutral point from which we can "know," that "knowingness" itself is the evil within. (knowingness)
The Writings of Dorothy Day. Ammon Hennacy: 'Non-Church' Christian By Dorothy Day. The Catholic Worker, February 1970, 2,8.
