Reads tagged with “culture”

Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong
“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power… Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace.”

How to Be Animal: An Antidote to Our Self-Expatriation from Nature
How to embrace our inheritance as “a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be eaten, injured and dissipated back into the enigmatic physics of the universe.”

How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”

Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for Measuring the Universe
How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.

Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments of a Fulfilling Life
“The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary to the mind. It is the core and essence of human life. The intellect arises out of it, is rooted in it, draws its nourishment and sustenance from it.”

Bunny & Tree: A Tender Wordless Parable of Friendship and the Improbable Saviors That Make Life Livable
Traversing the landscape of life on the wings of trust.

The Power of Being a Heretic: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Critical Thinking, Emotional Imagination, and How to Rehumanize the World
“If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of all, that new emotional imagination… begotten of enlarged sympathies and a more sensitive habit of feeling.”

How People Change: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Essence of Freedom and the Two Elements of Self-Transcendence
“We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.”

Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard Dioramas
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.

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