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Dostoevsky, nihilism, and the fight for human nature

Russian nihilism on trial

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Thomas Mann and the fall of the West

Mann's masterpiece predicted liberalism's crisis

Oliver Adelson
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Pinker vs Nietzsche: Is music the basis of language?

Language is born out of music

Kathleen Higgins
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Eurovision is more important than you think

Europe needs cohesion

Galia Press-Barnathan
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Oscar Wilde's radical philosophy is a modern battle cry

Why socialism needs individuals

Mike Benett
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Shakespeare vs Wittgenstein: the fight for meaning

Lost in tragedy

William Day
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Heidegger and Studio Ghibli converge on technology

Edward McDougall
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Marx and Nietzsche: how art can save us

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The death of the unreliable narrator

How we killed the narrator, and why we need it back

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David Bowie and the Theatre of Self

A philosophical look at Bowie's shifting identity.

Ted Ammon
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The crisis of creativity

We are losing our grip on creativity; how can we regain it?

Peter Carruthers
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Nietzsche, Dune and the power of religion

God is dead. But not in Dune

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Why you can't paraphrase a poem

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Escaping suffering and representation

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Dostoevsky vs Tolstoy: The Limits of Language

Ineffability and incarnation

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Margaret Atwood: A sword is mightier than the pen

"Artists have no actual power"

Margaret Atwood
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Beauty beyond the subjective and objective

Our beliefs about beauty don't match our actions

Filippo Contesi
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Poetry is philosophy

How Dickinson’s poems reveal the depths of the self

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We must stop thinking photographs depict reality

On the ecology of images

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Alienation fuels imagination

Beckett, Bowie, and how to reframe reality

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The morality of loving villains

The allure of evil on-screen

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Without relationships there is no self

Memoirs and therapy are not self-indulgent

Elliot Jurist
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Nabokov and why the moral act is the free act

How freedom and morality are intertwined

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AI poetry reveals the truth of the world

Language and the limits of experience

David Nowell Smith
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