Want to know why 50,000 people showed up to pay their respects at the funeral of Jean-Paul Sartre? Three… Ray Monk looks at the life of Walter Benjamin, and discovers how he found his calling.

Although his parents were first- and second-generation German immigrants, Oppenheimer always insisted that he didn’t speak German, according to Ray Monk, the author of “Robert Oppenheimer ...

Writing in Prospect magazine, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton, Ray Monk, notes that “the general idea that there are truths that cannot be proved has an appeal ...

In “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American opera director Yuval Sharon takes the radically opposite view, arguing that the ...

By the time most kids have graduated from college, he had consumed “the entire Western canon of philosophy.” A notable advantage of packing boxes in a warehouse all day is that rote ...

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Pepe Mujica, Uruguay’s spartan former president and plain-spoken philosopher, offers wisdom from a rich life as he battles cancer. The Global Profile Pepe Mujica, Uruguay’s spartan former ...

It was a paraphrase. What Ayer said in 1985 was: "Considering the strength of his personality and his total commitment to his own conception of philosophy, one might have expected Wittgenstein to ...

Swami Vivekananda, a renowned Indian monk and philosopher, left behind a legacy of profound wisdom and inspiration. Here are ...

New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): On the 122nd death anniversary of philosopher and monk Swami Vivekananda, Prime Minister ...

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