David Breuer-Weil

Few of Giorgio Agamben’s works are as mysterious as his unpublished dissertation, reportedly on the political thought of the French philosopher Simone Weil. If Weil was an early su...

Josef Breuer was educated at home by his father and was able to read by age 4. In 1850, at age 8, Breuer entered the Akademisches Gymnasium, a secondary school in Vienna that place...

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today....

Simone Weil - philosopher, religious thinker, mystic, social/political activist - is notoriously difficult to categorize, since her life and writings challenge traditional academic...

Dämonen, Wiedergänger, Untote, Spukgestalten: Sie alle wirken unheimlich, weil sie im Detail zumindest noch menschenähnlich sind, weil sie nach alltäglichem Ermessen keinen Platz i...

Abstract One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Mich...