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Darwin in the Louvre
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton Bloomsbury, 288 pages, $25 The human artistic drive is as old as the species itself. The famous Lascaux...
The Odyssey of the Odyssey
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey by Edith Hall Johns Hopkins University Press, 304 pages, $35 Edith Hall’s The Return of Ulysses is a sweeping...
Human, All Too Human
Dialogue with Nietzsche by Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 247 pages, $29.50 It is part of academic folklore to defend philosophers against unskilled readings by nonspecialists. One of the...
Main Currents of Kolakowski
Few contemporary philosophers have works considered important by non-academics. Their intellectual pursuits, important as they are in their own right, have little impact outside academia, let alone are they...
Portrait of the Philosopher as a Young Man
An Infamous Past: E.M. Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in RomaniaBy Marta Petreu Ivan R. Dee. 332 pages, $30 It is an unenviable task for a biographer to dig...
