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Barn Burning on Intuition and the Banality of Evil

Barn Burning is written by Haruki Murkami is loosely based on William Faulkner’s story and explores themes of evil, intuition, metaphor, and memory.

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The Best Books for Teaching and Learning

The best books for teaching and learning include insights on neuroscience, biology, philosophy, psychology, and communication theory.

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Mircea Eliade and The Myth of the Eternal Return

Mircea Eliade and The Myth of the Eternal Return

In his 1949 book, The Myth of the Eternal Return, Mircea Eliade explores the role of repetition, imagination, and participation in creating history.

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Big Data Danger and the Costs of Connection

Big Data Danger and the Costs of Connection

Big data danger, according to Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias in The Costs of Connection, is not just about information but life – and what represents life.

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Gaston Bachelard and Mircea Eliade on the Existential and Cognitive Functions of the Imagination

Gaston Bachelard and Mircea Eliade on the Existential and Cognitive Functions of the Imagination

The phenomenology of Gaston Bachelard inspired the work of Mircea Eliade on the cognitive and existential functions of the imagination.

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Kenneth Burke on Bad Readers

Kenneth Burke on Bad Readers

Kenneth Burke says bad readers stem from the spread of literacy through compulsory education and the culture’s inability to pay attention.

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Rethinking the Winchester Mystery House

According to legend, the erratic architecture of the Winchester Mystery House was designed to confuse the spirits who haunted Sarah Winchester.

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My Super-Nerdy Reading Strategy for Finishing Books

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Kojin Karatani on the Will to Architecture

Kojin Karatani’s “will to architecture” surfaces in disciplines ranging from literature and psychoanalysis to anthropology and mathematics.

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John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row Literary Tour

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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Paul Valery Poetry and Abstract Thought

Paul Valery on the Common Material of Poets and Philosophers

Paul Valery challenges the arbitrary divide between the poet and the philosopher while considering the intellectual rigor of the poet.

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Independent Scholarship: Joseph Campbell on Reading Nine Hours a Day

Joseph Campbell discusses independent scholarship and the admirable discipline of reading nine hours a day for five years straight.

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Clive Thompson on the Creative Imagination of Coders

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Susanne Langer on Creative Philosophy in a New Key

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The Invisible in Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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