while we might not all be artists, there is much we can learn from them about dealing with the ambiguity, complexity and unknowability of life today.

Again, naysayers, of course. Are you seriously saying that the chaos and tumult of today can be solved by artists? Well, no, not really; I am arguing that, while not all of us should or could become ar... See more

Is there, though, far from the dizzying crowd of practical readings, a single and right way to read? Is there a center, as Weil asks in her notebooks, “from which may be seen the different possible readings—and their relationship—and our own only as one among them”? By way of a rather cryptic reply, she then suggests that we “transport ourselves to

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