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Montesquieu crucially argued that surprise, which can be alienating or challenging, like a particularly ugly wabi-sabi Japanese tea vessel, is a fundamental element of taste. “Something can surprise us because it excites wonder, or because it is new or unexpected,” he wrote—it exists outside the realm of what we already know we like. “Our soul ofte
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The freedom of disregard.
Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Discourse on Method.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Before the 20th century, reflection on truth in Western intellectual and spiritual traditions usually exalted it. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
argument
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Populism gives life to Michel Foucault’s celebrated reversal of the Clausewitz dictum: Politics is the pursuit of war by other means.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
freedom of thought and correctness of thought,
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
In a recent summing-up essay in Antinomy, Swiss observed