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How the French think by Jonathan Derbyshire June 18, 2015/Prospect Perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem There are still signs of intellectual life in France Radical chic: Simone de Beauvoir (left) and Jean-Paul Sartre (centre) meet Che Guevara in 1960 (Photo: Alberto Korda) In February 2003, the then French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin addressed the..

Was Dickens a Thief? Nicholas Dames The Atlantic Monthly / June 2015 Issue A new novel portrays the young writer of The Pickwick Papers as a conniving founder of modern mass culture. Owen Freeman On an April evening in 1836, two collaborators working on what would become one of the most popular novels of the 19th century met in London. The guest was the project’s illustrator,..

On Edward Hopper Mark Strand The New York Review of Books June 25, 2015 Issue Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper: Reclining Female Nude, Rear View, 1900–1906 This essay by Mark Strand was originally written for The New York Review of Books as a review of the exhibition of Edward Hopper’s drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2013. It was ..

Is The West's Loss Of Faith Terminal? DOUGLAS MURRAY STANDPOINT May 2015 It is as well to admit when your enemies are onto something. Today the antagonists of Western culture and civilisation throw many accusations at us — almost all of them untrue. They say that our history has been especially cruel, whereas it has been no crueller than any other and significantly less ..

The Playwright And The Scientist: A Conversation Between Tom Stoppard And David Sloan Wilson This View of Life 28 May, 2015 The following conversation between Tom Stoppard and David Sloan Wilson took place in the London office of Yale University Press on Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Wilson’s book Does Altruism Exist: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others had just been publish..

The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men? Wikipedia is the world’s most popular encyclopaedia, a collaborative utopia. But only one in every ten of its editors is a woman. by Jenny Kleeman NewStatesman Published 26 May, 2015 - 14:53 Wikipedia is “like a sausage”, its founder, Jimmy Wales, told a reporter in 2004. “You migh..

Bertrand Russell (1926) Theory of Knowledge (for The Encyclopaedia Britannica) THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE is a product of doubt. When we have asked ourselves seriously whether we really know anything at all, we are naturally led into an examination of knowing, in the hope of being able to distinguish trustworthy beliefs from such as are untrustworthy. Thus Kant, the founder of modern ..

The Trouble with “Modernity” Christopher Nealon Public Books May 1, 2015 <><><><><> The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 Mark Greif Princeton University Press, 2015 <><><><><> It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that capitalism is the engine behind the environmental cri..

In bed with Tchaikovsky SIMON MORRISON The Times Literary Supplement How scholarship concerned with the Russian composer’s sexuality traps him in a perpetual adolescence – and drags him into modern debates about Russia and the West Published: 29 April 2015 Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Lilia Yudina as Antonina Milyukova in Tchaikovsky, 1969 Photograph:..

삼국지의 여인들 ⑩ 異邦의 女傑들 촉의 장수를 사로잡은 축융부인 孔明의 南征 촉(蜀)나라의 국력을 키우며 북벌 준비를 하고 있던 공명에게 익주(益州)에서 사자가 급히 달려왔다. 보고의 ... 2015년 5월호 민희식 前 서울대 교수 외 1명 삼국지의 여인들 ⑨ 손인과 사마지 孫仁, 劉備를 사..