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Perspectives | On Earth and Soil
By Lucretius, Ballard, Heaney and Others
Sep 21 • The Humanities Library
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Issue #29: When The World Feels Too Heavy
Calvino on Lightness, Rolland on the Oceanic Feeling, Krauss on Grids and Early Rolling Stone Covers
Sep 14 • The Humanities Library
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Perspectives | On How to Have Good Taste
By Nietzsche, Kant, Bourdieu, Auden and Others
Sep 7 • The Humanities Library
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Issue #28: The Reason We Can Never Agree on What’s ‘Good’
Isaiah Berlin on Values, Horace on Literary Affectation and Linda Nochlin on Why There Have Been No Great Women Artists
Aug 31 • The Humanities Library
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Perspectives | On Disgust
15 Philosophers, Anthropologists, Psychologists, Artists and Poets on the Theme of Disgust
Aug 24 • The Humanities Library
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Issue #27: Why Our Work Feels So Empty
Karl Marx on Alienation, Edmund Husserl on the Lifeworld, John Dewey on Art and Ancient Recipes for Toothpaste
Aug 17 • The Humanities Library
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Perspectives | On Trees
17 of The Most Evocative Trees in Literature
Aug 10 • The Humanities Library
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Issue #26: Why Making Art Matters, Even When It Doesn't Pay
Lewis Hyde on The Gift of Creation, Simone Weil on Going Beyond Empathy, and The Discovery of an Ancient City in the Clouds
Aug 3 • The Humanities Library
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