Robert Musil and Life as Experiment
September 21, 2025
Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian novelist, famous for The Man Without Qualities. Set in…
September 21, 2025
Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian novelist, famous for The Man Without Qualities. Set in…
February 26, 2023
French thinker Michel de Montaigne invented a whole new genre in which to do philosophy:…
September 4, 2022
The American Library Association reports that last year 1,597 books were challenged or removed from…
July 17, 2022
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish critical theorist, essayist, and philosopher who died tragically during…
March 13, 2022
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe lambasted Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as a deeply racist work that…
February 27, 2022
Postmodernism is often characterized by its rejection of concepts championed by the Enlightenment, like meaning,…
January 10, 2021
In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important than ever. Engaging with…
January 3, 2021
In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important than ever. Engaging with…
April 19, 2020
What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of…
August 19, 2018
Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read…
July 2, 2017
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins…
April 16, 2017
For decades, literary critics have been questioning the relevance of the novel as a literary…
May 24, 2015
A good novel can do many things. It can distract us from the humdrum of…
June 8, 2014
What philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues would you like to read up on over the…
September 8, 2013
In the 18th and 19th Century, philosophers and intellectuals were immersed in politics and popular…
April 7, 2013
Reading is a lot of fun, especially narrative fiction – everyone loves a good story.…