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Lisa Taddeo • Animal: A Novel
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Estelle Ryan • The Gentileschi Connection (Book 18) (Genevieve Lenard)
study The Origins of Totalitarianism, that totalitarian movements thrived at least partly because of this fragmentation in modern lives, which made people more vulnerable to being swept away by demagogues. Elsewhere, she coined the phrase ‘the banality of evil’ to describe the most extreme failures of personal moral awareness. The phrase attracted
... See moreSarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
has supposed that she suffered from a brief “psychotic episode” indicative of “schizophrenia.” Bruno Bettelheim, whose trenchant comments on Carotenuto’s book have since been added as a foreword to it, alternates between “either a schizophrenic disturbance or severe hysteria with schizoid features.”
John Kerr • A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein (Vintage)
“The unofficial nature of American antisemitism encouraged many Jews to resist discrimination by using bureaucratic name change petitions to reshape their personal identity rather than civil rights activism to change an unfair society.”
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
they weren’t the only ones warping my sense of reality—it was also the many flavors of online Nazi, the school shooters and the girls who longed to love them, the edgelords and their aggressive brooding, cranky old Ayn Rand—all these various manifestations of a worldview that insisted what mattered most was power, and that getting attention gave yo
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