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From the Jewish State to the Islamic State | Learning by Proxy (blog.viveksrinivasan.com)
The Middle East is perhaps the most complex region to understand. That land was the cradle of civilisation and history that old is ofter hard to reconcile with.
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Best Historical Movies for Your Thanksgiving Food Coma (unrulyfigures.substack.com)
If you’re like me, you’re not getting off the couch tonight.
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The Wistful and the Good, Chapter 1 (gmbaker.substack.com)
Serialized historical fiction and accompanying commentaries on the historical and literary issues raised by the stories.
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13. On the resistance to nihilism, abstraction, and ideology in (publicthings.substack.com)
Or, how Albert Camus’ novel implicates us all
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12. On Camus’ outline for a politics of non-violence and non-dom (publicthings.substack.com)
Or, how Camus’ ecological imagination resists nihilism and ideology
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11. On how Albert Camus’ ecological imagination structures The P (publicthings.substack.com)
The natural comedy, romance, and tragedy of the novel
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10. On the ecological imagination of Albert Camus (publicthings.substack.com)
From ‘Don Juan Faust’ to Euphorion
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9. On the human body as the locus of Albert Camus’ thought (publicthings.substack.com)
And how the body grounded his literary imagination in the theatre
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8. On the influence of tuberculosis on Albert Camus’ The Plague, (publicthings.substack.com)
And how it fulfils the plague symbol
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7. On the influence of tuberculosis on Camus’ early life and wor (publicthings.substack.com)
And how it prefigures the plague symbol
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5. On the influence of the purge on Camus’ thinking1944-1945 (publicthings.substack.com)
Or, how Camus came to oppose the death penalty and political violence more generally
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4. On the second version of Albert Camus' The Plague, 1942-1 (publicthings.substack.com)
The influence of exile, separation, and occupation, on the plague symbol
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3. On the first version of Albert Camus' The Plague, 1941-19 (publicthings.substack.com)
Some of the origins of the plague symbol
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2. On why Albert Camus' The Plague is not an allegory (publicthings.substack.com)
An outline of Camus’ theory of the novel
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Story Cauldron (storycauldron.substack.com)
Exploring the existence of quirky storytelling in our everyday lives
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Philosopher File: Aztec Philosophy (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Aztec philosophy tells us that the world is slippery, and that if we don’t want to lose our footing, we need all the wisdom we can get.
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Philosopher File: Gautama Buddha (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
The Buddha was a wandering renunciant in Ancient India who kick-started a two and a half thousand-year-old religious and philosophical revolution. But who was this mysterious figure, and what was the revolution he started?
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The Most Ill-Timed Website in History – The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
There are a near infinite number of sites that have launched that you’ve never heard about. This is likely one of them. But if not for poor timing, it may have been primed for success.
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