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Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and P...

4 months ago 16

The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”

The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Ar...

4 months ago 13

Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying

Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, ...

4 months ago 11

Marianne Moore on the There Elements of Persuasive Writing

Marianne Moore on the There Elements of Persuasive...

4 months ago 17

The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking

The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on C...

4 months ago 13

A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire

A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and D...

4 months ago 13

The Woman Who Saved Native Song

The Woman Who Saved Native Song

4 months ago 16

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, ...

4 months ago 16

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy...

4 months ago 17

Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

4 months ago 16

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Mos...

4 months ago 14

Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The ...

4 months ago 13

Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

4 months ago 16

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for i...

4 months ago 17

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Ha...

4 months ago 14

William James on the Psychology of Habit

William James on the Psychology of Habit

4 months ago 16

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte ...

4 months ago 14

Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World

Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Matura...

4 months ago 18