Une futile audace

Apprendre une langue étrangère, c’est se confronter inévitablement à une distance à la fois culturelle et linguistique, inégale selon les langues ; c’est cette distance elle-même q...

En février 2018, le Conseil de l’Europe publie, plus de 15 ans après le CECR, un Volume complémentaire censé parachever le document de 2001, avec de nouvelles échelles de descripte...

Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbreaking that its chief creator, Kevin Shields, has been unable or unwilling to release a...

This essay is a response to Edward Schatz’s contribution in this book, Global Perspectives on the United States. It acknowledges ways that Schatz contributes to our understanding o...

This chapter argues that paradox arises, not from our phenomenal experience, but from our efforts at conceptualizing it through the logic of comprehension dominating Western though...

The earliest story of judgment comes in the Iliad with the Judgment of Paris and the ensuing Trojan Wars. The chapter suggests we have concealed important insights from this story,...

The bluff has always been that Western philosophy is a life skill and a life choice, unresolved in its ultimate questions and cheerfully echoing with the laughter of the Thracian w...