In an issue of Esprit entitled Consciences de l’écologie, Catherine Larrère looks at how the ecological thought of the social philosopher André Gorz was shaped by two works published in the 1970s: Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen’s A Blueprint for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYxrowovts More than a few of us might be interested in the opportunity to spend a day in Victorian London. But very few of us indeed who’ve ever read, say, a Charles Dickens novel would ever elect to live there....
In Blätter, Seyla Benhabib writes that Israel’s war on Hamas reflects three significant shifts in international relations: first, protectionism, imperialism and expansionism replacing globalisation, particularly in the invasion – or threats of invasion – by Russia, the United States, China...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4hdA11Z-Q If you wish to become a cinephile worthy of the title, you must first pledge never to refuse to watch a film for any of the following reasons. First, that it is in a different language and subtitled; second,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlZq8Nit0Vw The practice of cartomancy, or divination with cards, dates back several hundred years to at least 14th century Europe, perhaps by way of Turkey. But the specific form we know of, the tarot, likely emerged in the 17th century,...
Future historians looking back upon the Israel-Gaza conflict may see that it stands at the nodal point of three developments that together have fundamentally reshaped the coordinates of the international institutions established in the wake of WWII. The first development...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPkDSV-fos In 2003, a Salvador Dalí drawing was stolen from Rikers Island, one of the most formidable prisons in the United States. That the incident has never been used as the basis for a major motion picture seems inexplicable, at...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SASDkIQjouI On Sunday morning, some audacious thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre Museum. The heist took only eight minutes from start to finish. At 9:30 a.m., the robbers parked a truck with a portable ladder in front of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZdkhFjCfo In the eighteenth century, the readers of Europe went mad for epistolary novels. France had, to name the most sensational examples, Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes, Rousseau’s Julie, and Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses; Germany, Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther and Hölderlin’s Hyperion....
During the horrifying, long stretch of the genocidal war on Gaza, we did not have the privilege or the time to sit with our feelings. Surviving was a priority over processing our emotions. During the few weeks of the ceasefire...
