March 2023

Jezebel

Jezebel was a much-maligned woman, but Dane Gordon wonders if she really deserved such a bad name. Jezebel is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is not a complimentary definition: “Name of the infamous wife of Ahab, King of Israel, hence, a wicked abandoned woman, or a woman who paints her face.” Webster’s Dictionary […]

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No Hats on Sunday

Akif Rashid asks Albert Camus why so many people around him are unhappy and confused, and what to do about it. I tend not to live by very many adages, but I am inclined to a witticism once in a while. One of the lines close to my heart is by Henry James: “I’ve always

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We’re All Existentialists Now

Greg Artus contemplates (dis)embodiment, Zoom life and social media, through the ‘Looks’ of Sartre, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. In this past year of severe restrictions on physical social interaction, everyone seems to have been made starkly aware of the importance of what some existentialists would call Being-with-Others. A social life conducted through screens has shown people

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Sartre on Literature

Ion Georgiou explains the literary theories of a man who loved words. “A writer writes to a great extent to be read (as for those who say they don’t, let us admire them but not believe them).” Albert Camus It has been said of Monsieur Sartre – and it remains undoubtedly true – that the

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