The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, moved the Habsburg court from Vienna to Prague in 1583. Thanks to his patronage, the Bohemian capital attracted many of the…… Read more “Hermaphroditus and Salmacis | History Today”
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Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online | Open Culture
Not many readers of the 21st century seek out the work of popular writers of the 19th century, but when they do, they often seek out the…… Read more “Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online | Open Culture”
Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Welcome to this special site celebrating Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 250th birthday on 27 August 2020. To mark the occasion a wide range of Cambridge content from across books…… Read more “Philosophy | Cambridge Core”
The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them | Aeon Essays
Birds have always been important ‘markers’, associated with particular seasons, times and places. In the ancient world, weather and seasonal changes were matters of vital consequence for…… Read more “The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them | Aeon Essays”
The Last of the Hedgehogs – Los Angeles Review of Books
A collection of scintillating interviews with a celebrated French cultural theorist. — Read on lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-last-of-the-hedgehogs
Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger review – philosophy’s great decade? | Philosophy books | The Guardian
The story, told with free-wheeling gusto, of four German thinkers – Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein – before the dark decade of the…… Read more “Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger review – philosophy’s great decade? | Philosophy books | The Guardian”
‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi – The New York Times
Dimaline, along with Waubgeshig Rice, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger and Stephen Graham Jones, who has been called “the Jordan Peele of horror literature,” are some of…… Read more “‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi – The New York Times”
One of the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Explore the Gandhara Scroll | Open Culture
One of the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Explore the Gandhara Scroll | Open Culture — Read on http://www.openculture.com/2020/08/one-of-the-oldest-buddhist-manuscripts-has-been-digitized-put-online.html
Don’t Believe History Repeats Itself? Read This Book – The New York Times
In Emma Donoghue’s arresting new page-turner of a novel, “The Pull of the Stars,” an urban hospital is overwhelmed by victims of a cruel new disease. The…… Read more “Don’t Believe History Repeats Itself? Read This Book – The New York Times”
The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus | Psyche Ideas
In Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina, the plague isn’t a biological virus, it doesn’t cause lockdowns, but it is killing us — Read on psyche.co/ideas/the-plague-novel-you-need-to-read-is-by-bachmann-not-camus
