Boris (Bruce) Kriger·Oct 20Goethe, Faust and the Deconstruction of GeniusEveryone agrees that Goethe was a genius. The trouble starts when you ask where the genius is. Was it in the life — the prodigy who made…
Ani·Oct 6A moment from Herzen’s “Byloe i dumy” (“My Past & Thoughts”)Alexander Herzen was a writer, philosopher, critic, memoirist, and publicist. His name is inseparable from Russia’s liberal and radical…
Maria Alexea·Sep 11THE LAST PAGE OF THE BIBLE AND THE EPILOGUE OF FAUST PART II Judgment, the Seventh Phiale, and the…Judgment, the Seventh Phiale, and the Return of the Exiled Member
Nick Williams·Sep 5Mental Health in the Social CollusionSimulated mental health is — we might say — ‘the mental health of who we are in the simulation’; it is ‘the mental health belonging to the…
InILLUMINATIONbyJabi·Aug 19Encounters in the Heart of History — A Dialogue with GoetheWhat Goethe discovered in Hafez and what poetry taught him about the otherA response icon39A response icon39
Sailortraveller·Aug 9“Linger a While, Thou Art So Fair!”The House Where Goethe Lived: A Look Inside The Daily Life of “Faust’s” CreatorA response icon14A response icon14
Deepshadowmind·Aug 4A Belief Leads to IgnoranceThere are convictions that do not open us up — they close us off.
