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War and Peace is rooted in Tolstoy’s longing for the infinite and universal. Yet, it reveals our need to focus on the concrete and mundane.
("The Battle of Austerlitz" by François Gérard, 1810)
Culture Essays 

History Isn’t Made by Great Men

August 12, 2021December 27, 2021 14 min read Henriikka Hannula Essential Reading, History, Literature

War and Peace is rooted in Tolstoy’s longing for the infinite and universal. Yet, it reveals our need to focus on the concrete and mundane.

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Ishiguro Explores 'Our Illusory Sense of Connection with the World'
(Matt Jones)
Culture Ideas 

Ishiguro Explores ‘Our Illusory Sense of Connection with the World’

December 10, 2018June 1, 2020 8 min read Cynthia Wong Literature, Sadness

Ishiguro has been praised for his unapologetic investigation of loss and hope, and the “inevitable sadness” inherent in his novels.

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Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and the Kingdom of God Erraticus Image
Culture Ideas 

Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and the ‘Kingdom of God’

December 9, 2018March 27, 2021 8 min read Jeffrey Howard Literature, Soren Kierkegaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard often uses religious language in his fiction—but as religion recedes, does he think literature can create ecstatic experience?

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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