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Julian Barnes: ‘Art doesn’t just capture the thrill of life ... sometimes it is that thrill’ When Julian Barnes was growing up, going to a gallery felt like an obligation. Then he discovered modernism, with its slicings, whirls and brainy grids. Later, realism seemed just as fascinating and truthful. He reflects on a life looking at art The Persistence of Memory (1931) b..

[기획보도] 방하남·서승환·안종범 ‘양호’ 류길재·백승주·홍기택 ‘미달’ 논문인용지수로 본 한국 교수들의 ‘실력’ 한상진 기자 | greenfish@donga.com신동아 2015년 4월호 ● ‘폴리페서’ 조국(법학)·곽승준(경제학), 인용 횟수·논문 수 1위 ● 한 해 논문 4편 발표한 71세 여성 수학..

The Liberal Arts vs. Neoliberalism Jackson Lears Commonweal April 20, 2015 - 2:34pm It is a platitude that we cannot defend the humanities without slipping into platitudes. Why is that? Part of the answer involves the corrosive impact of contemporary intellectual fashion. We are besieged by a resurgence of positivist scientism—the transformation of science from a method ..

Culture’s Champion On rereading ‘Culture and Anarchy.’ By Gertrude Himmelfarb Weekly Standard Dec 1, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 12 Arnold’s culture is high indeed. It is nothing less than the pursuit of “sweetness and light” (Jonathan Swift’s epigram for beauty and intelligence), “total perfection,” “the best which has been thought and said,” and the “right reason” that comes from the “best self” rather..

천자 칼럼 일본식 한자 한국경제 입력 2015-04-12 20:36:54 | 수정 2015-04-13 00:43:32 권영설 논설위원 yskwon@hankyung.com 기사 이미지 보기서울시가 일본식 한자어 등 행정용어 23개를 순화해 쓰기로 했다고 최근 발표했다. 견출지는 ‘찾음표’로, 시말서는 ‘경위서’로, 식비와 식대는 ‘밥값’으..

What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like James Harbeck (Heritage Images/Corbis) The Week March 20, 2015 Let's hop into a time machine and go back to the England of yore! If this were a movie, no matter when we got out of the machine, we could walk up to people and start talking. It could be medieval times or the age of King Arthur's round..

What the Hell Is the Purpose of Hell? The idea of hell has evolved over millennia. Where did it come from, and why does it endure? A brief history of eternal punishment... The Daily Beast 03.22.15 Whether hell is other people, a place, or just a bad date, it’s deeply ingrained in society’s collective consciousness. But why? Whether hell is an expletive, a coercive threat to..

You Weren't Born a Narcissist. Your Parents Made You One By Sarah Kollmorgen New Republic March 9, 2015 There has been much hubbub in the past few years over how self-obsessed our society has become: Are men or women more narcissistic? (Men.) Where do the most narcissists live? (California.) Millennials, especially, are often accused of being narcissists. That may not be true...

Great Escape On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece Debussy playing the piano, 1893 By Sudip Bose March 4, 2015 The American Scholar By the time he began composing his monumental set of 12 piano etudes, 100 years ago, Claude Debussy could look back on his body of work and know that he had attained a place among ..

Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe By Laura Kipnis The Chronicle Review February 27, 2015 Matt Roth for The Chronicle Review You have to feel a little sorry these days for professors married to their former students. They used to be respectable citizens—leaders in their fields, department chairs, maybe even a dean or two—and now they’re abusers of power avant la lett..