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Book of the day Society books A History of Solitude by David Vincent; A Biography of Loneliness by Fay Bound Alberti – review In these isolating times, are you enjoying solitude or, very different, are you suffering from loneliness? Terry Eagleton The Guardian Thu 19 Mar 2020 07.30 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Mar 2020 11.04 GMT Lonely as a cloud? Wandering alone allows space..

Books Capitalism’s Favorite DrugThe dark history of how coffee took over the world Michael Pollan The Atlantic, April 2020 Issue .c-book-in-review{font-size:12px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,Helvetica Neue,Segoe UI,Arial,sans-serif;border-top:1px solid #d3dce6;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:1px;line-height:1.125;padding:12px 0;text-transform:uppercase}..

On Pandemic and Literature Ed Simon MM The MilllionsMarch 12, 2020 Less than a century after the Black Death descended into Europe and killed 75 million people—as much as 60 percent of the population (90% in some places) dead in the five years after 1347—an anonymous Alsatian engraver with the fantastic appellation of “Master of the Playing Cards” saw fit to depict St...

Books The sacrifices of George Orwell’s first wife Discovering the life of Eileen Blair, the “black hole at the centre of Orwell studies”. By Frances Wilson New Statesnan America 4 March 2020 <img typeof=”foaf:Image” src=”https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/nodeimage/public/blogs_2020/03/2020_10_george_and_eileen.jpg?itok=5lwOnpNB” alt=”..

Books The paradox of an atheist soul Why the idea of a single self only makes sense in a theistic world. By John Gray New Statesman America26 February 2020 There are many arguments for theism, most of them not worth rehearsing. The ontological argument, first formulated by St Anselm in the 11th century and reframed by the 17th-century French rationalist René Descartes (1596-..

Life and the living The mysticism and pragmatism of Victorian philosopher-psychologist William James Jane O'Grady Standpoint 26/02/2020 “Is Life Worth Living?” was the title of a lecture given in 1896 by philosopher and psychologist William James. It began by mentioning a similarly-entitled self-help book—to which, when it had been published 15 years earlier, newspapers ..

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Review A professional critic’s assessment of a service, product, performance, or artistic or literary work What ruins can teach us about beauty and decay By Michael S. Roth The Washington PostFebruary 7 Add to listOn my list “Tempio di Giove Tonante,” an etching and engraving by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), who wanted to preserve Roman ruins forever through pr..

Inveterate ignoramus Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser Christopher Bray The CriticsFebruary 2020 Louis Althusser sounds like an anagram, which is fitting because his books read like clues to a crossword so cryptic it would have defeated Alan Turing. In the introductory note to History and Imperialism its editor and translator, G.M. Goshgarian,..

"로마帝國이 망한 후 천여년간 고만고만한 小國들이 유럽대륙에서 서로 경쟁해 왔기 때문이다. 경쟁은 혁신을 주도하고, 과도한 국가 권위는 경제성장을 억제하는 경향이 있다. 아시아는 거대한 中國帝國과 印度帝國이 혁신의 장애물이었다." But what if …A counterfactual examination of the history ..