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Reading about Historical Muses
Started this research project after reading about Georgina Weldon. She’s notorious for having a litigation addiction but I’m obsessed with the time Gounod asked for his sheet music back after their divorce and she sent it with her name written across every page. When he attempted to have her committed, she escaped and... See more
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Why Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far Right?
Julian Göpffarthopendemocracy.netKinkel m’a donné une lettre de recommandation pour Malvida von Meysenburg. Vous la connaissez, c’est elle qui a écrit les Mémoires d’une idéaliste ? » Breuer acquiesça. Il connaissait bien l’œuvre de Malvida von Meysenburg, en particulier ses croisades en faveur des droits des femmes, des réformes politiques radicales et des changements dans les mé
... See moreIrvin Yalom • Et Nietzsche a pleuré (Littérature) (French Edition)
Teaching for People Who Prefer Not to Teach
A collection of unconventional teaching methods and exercises for educators and students, promoting collaborative learning, self-discovery, and the exploration of art, while challenging traditional educational norms.
LinkThe treatment of labour as a calling became as characteristic of the modern worker as the corresponding attitude toward acquisition of the business man.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
People who read widely and attentively—and then publish the results of their reading—are also arguably performing research as a leisure activity. Maria Popova, who started writing a blog in 2006—now called The Marginalian —which collects her reading across literature, philosophy, psychology, the sciences. Her blog feels like leisurely research, to ... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
fair land—let's call it 'Feminisia,'"