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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
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The death of the public intellectual
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the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
What Brown opposes to this neoliberal conversion of education – what she calls ‘the saturation of higher education by market rationality [which has] converted higher education from a social and public good to a personal investment in individual futures, futures construed mainly in terms of earning capacity’ – is egalitarianism, social mobility, bro
... See moreAdam Phillips • On Wanting to Change
Alf Rehn
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Debra Schneider
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Transitioning into retirement with lots of wonderings and wonder
Sancia Holden
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Van Breda asked monks at a Franciscan monastery near Freiburg if they could hide the manuscripts or help smuggle them out, but they were reluctant. Then a Benedictine nun stepped in: Sister Adelgundis Jägerschmidt, from a nearby Lioba Sisters convent. She was another former student of phenomenology
Sarah 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
The politics of the market and workplace conspire with one’s own defensive powers to build resistance to the opportunity to learn from failure.