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Essay-Appreciation: On Kobo Abe's Scientifically Surreal, Eerily Erotic Novels - by Colin Marshall

Essay-Appreciation: On Kobo Abe's Scientifically Surreal, Eerily Erotic Novels - by Colin Marshall | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.themillions.com - August 1, 2017 9:48 AM
Abe's detractors mutter "Something's very wrong here — but what?" Abe's fans mutter "Something's very right here — but what?"
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The essayist Colin Marshall, in addition to his journalistic and blogging pursuits, produces video and sound art and hosts the public radio program and podcast The Marketplace of Ideas.
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Interview: On Philosophy in Dark Times - with Dr Sandy Grant, Prof. of Philosophy at Univ of Cambridge, and author

Interview: On Philosophy in Dark Times - with Dr Sandy Grant, Prof. of Philosophy at Univ of Cambridge, and author | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From blog.apaonline.org - May 30, 2017 7:01 AM
Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. I spoke with Dr. Grant about philosophy's
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5 Great Books on Existentialism – Recommended by Sarah Bakewell, award-winning biographer

5 Great Books on Existentialism – Recommended by Sarah Bakewell, award-winning biographer | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From fivebooks.com - May 31, 2017 1:37 AM
Existentialist philosophy isn't about bringing despair and angst into our lives, it's about discovering our inner freedom.
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Sarah Bakewell is the author of At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails, and How To Live or, A Life of Montaigne, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2011, and the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction in the UK.
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Biography, Literature & Philosophy: 'A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning' by Robert Zaretsky

Biography, Literature & Philosophy: 'A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning' by Robert Zaretsky | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From metapsychology.mentalhelp.net - July 22, 2014 11:44 PM
Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning Metapsychology The French writer, Albert Camus was 'a moralist who insisted that while the world is absurd and allows for no hope, we are not condemned to despair.' Like this, the historian Robert Zaretsky...
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