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Lorraine Besser
Lorraine Besser is the Pardon Tillinghast Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont and author of “The Art of the Interesting: What we miss in our pursuit of the good life and how to cultivate it” (2024).
Lorraine Besser is the Pardon Tillinghast Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont and author of “The Art of the Interesting: What we miss in our pursuit of the good life and how to cultivate it” (2024).
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Schopenhauer and the insatiable will to live
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