Renunciation as a Creative Force
Renunciation can be a creative force. American scholar Ross Posnock tells stories of writers, philosophers and artists who’ve committed “acts of abandonment”, leaving careers and creative lives behind. They weren’t failures, Posnock says — they were necessary departures that led to creative and intellectual breakthroughs.
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