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2 weeks ago

The Stranger review lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic

A monochrome adaptation of Camus's L'Etranger explores themes of empire and race in 1940s French Algeria, but loses some of the original's power.
fromPhilosophynow
6 months ago

Philosophers on Chocolate

Pop songs are usually about variations on the theme of love; tracks like Rose Royce's 1976 hit 'Car Wash' are the exception. Philosophers, likewise, tend to have a narrow focus on epistemology, metaphysics and trifles like the meaning of life. But occasionally great minds stray from their turf and write about other matters, for example buildings (Martin Heidegger), food (Hobbes), tomato juice (Robert Nozick), and the weather (Lucretius and Aristotle).
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