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This is where Cowen’s self-identification as an “idiot” acquires weight. He does not mean to glorify ignorance. He means to valorize receptivity. To be the idiot in the age of AI is to stand at the edge of one’s own knowledge and resist the impulse to retreat. It is not a capitulation; it is a discipline.
Sostiene Pereira, I say, by Antonio Tabucchi.
Mohsin Hamid • Discontent and Its Civilizations
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Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Le fondamentalisme islamique incarne bel et bien un défi radical, mais la « civilisation » qu’il défie est une civilisation mondiale plutôt qu’un phénomène uniquement occidental.
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
Evgeny Morozov,
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.
Louis N Sarkozy • Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era
From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more