‘Nietzsche begins, as many young poets do, with himself, albeit a rather...
Edvard Munch, 1906 From The Philosophers’ Magazine: If you’ve read Thus Spoke Zarathustra or some of Nietzsche’s more aphoristic works, you’ve probably noticed that he had a particular fondness for...
View ArticleNietzsche always remained Christian, at least emotionally…
From New Humanist: Nietzsche himself turns out to have been a likable sort of guy. Despite his over-the-top persona as an “antichrist”, he always “remained a Christian”, according to Young, if not...
View ArticleAleksandr Solzhenitsyn employed modernist means to achieve anti-modernist ends…
From Eurozine: Ezra Pound surprisingly believed that “all good art is realism of one kind or another”. No doubt the author of Ivan Denisovich would have agreed. In his literary and aesthetic tastes he...
View ArticleFoucault’s Will to Know by Stuart Elden
Areopagus from the Acropolis, Athens by Stuart Elden Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir: Cours au Collège de France, 1970-1971, suivi de Le savoir d’Œdipe, edited by Daniel Defert,...
View ArticleUtopianism is what the landlords have time for…
The Land of Cockaigne, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567 From New Left Review: The diagnosis first: To put it briefly . . . What will never again be built any more, cannot be built any more, is—a society,...
View Article‘”That, to me? Is real.”’
by Justin E. H. Smith I’ve carried around with me for the past few years this idea that George Saunders discovered a new method for exploring the human soul at hitherto unimagined depths, that he was...
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