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Jean-Francois Lyotard
Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the most important and complex French thinkers of the twentieth …
Egyptomania
Egyptomania takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of strange gods, mysterious magic, secret knowledge, monumental pyramids, enigmatic …
Appetites for Thought
Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the …
Adam Smith
Universally acknowledged as the father of capitalism, the eighteenth-century Scottish thinker Adam Smith is best known for his "e;invisible hand"e; theory. This theory …
Lewis Carroll
Though he's known now primarily as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetime Lewis Carroll was interested at least as much in photography as in writing. This …
Landscape as Weapon
Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and things-decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands-are …
Reflections on Baroque
From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even Muslim Turkey. …
Zen Landscapes
The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form, and a memory theater, these gardens exhibit …
Leonardo's Paradox
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He spent an incredible amount of time writing …
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot-the complex and prolific Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) is responsible for some of our greatest literary works and most …