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Daily Times July 31, 2021 “No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the Megaton bomb. It ends in the total menace, which organised mankind poses to organises men, in the epitome of discontinuity.” When Adorno wrote these lines, millions of Palestinians were undergoing ethnic cleansing by Irgun and Lehi. Half of its population was expelled with no right to return to their native land. Even those who wanted to assimilate had met the identical grisly fate as the one that awaited the assimilationist Jews in Nazi Germany. “An...

From the late 19th century, humanity began to move faster than it ever had before in history towards specialisation in various disciplines of knowledge. At the same time, we witnessed the divide between academic parlance and the common reader widening. Today, leave alone mathematical philosophy or theoretical physics, the knowledge offered by texts of literary criticism and applied sociology is becoming inaccessible to those untrained in these subjects. The specificity of language and style in each discipline that evolved over time was perhaps necessitated by the need for seeking depth and ri...

Are Tragedies Tragedies If They Conclude with a Consolation Prize? Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored "Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel." He can be reached at [email protected] Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politic...

Histórica herética del humor, desde Aristóteles a Ricky Gervais Terry Eagleton publica un ensayo sobre humor, filosofía y política Póster promocional del espectñaculos "Animals", de Ricky Gervais   12/07/2021 11:29 El legendario Terry Frances Eagleton (Salford, 1943) es uno de los mejores analistas culturales de la izquierda marxista, cristiana y obrera. Además, y esto es relevante, estamos ante un pensador capaz de ser gracioso sin perder profundidad. Durante años, en las contraportadas de sus libros, usaba como frase promocional algo que dijo el Príncipe Carlos al visitar Cam...