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Don’t walk ahead of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Byung-Chul Han's Burnout Society tells us that the subject of neoliberalism is not repressed but exhausted, not punished but ...
In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her two sons.
'The Myth of Sisyphus' doesn’t offer comfort; it offers dignity. Through lucid prose, Camus affirms freedom in choosing how we live, even when answers elude us. For anyone questioning the point of it ...
Waddington argues that Wilson, a scholar of ant colonies, is “running scared” of philosophy and neglects the complex ways in which humans communicate. Choksey adds that Waddington believed Wilson’s ...
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Imagine hearing the word “echo” and feeling an odd shiver as you call into a canyon, your voice bouncing back as if answering ...
They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for ...
Want to understand why New Hampshire's courts, legislature and governors haven't solved education funding problem? Read Andru Volinsky's book.
In Greek legend, Sisyphus is condemned by Zeus to forever push a huge boulder to the top of a mountain, only to see it roll down again just as he reaches the top. In The Myth of Sisyphus Camus asks us ...
A dog’s life — even if that means joyfully and endlessly chasing squirrels — is more meaningful than a dog owner’s life, asserts philosophy professor Mark Rowlands.
He dubs the thinking behind Edison’s credo “American Abracadabra”, a myth that is “part Rosebud, part Excalibur, part Sisyphus and part ‘Free Bird’”.