Word: humanisme
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KV: Yes, you must read Candide by Voltaire. Voltaire was a freethinker like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, although they did not go by that name. Today freethinkers like myself and my family go by the name humanists. I'll tell you an interesting story about Voltaire. He was...
Is Roth's new look meant to impress the Swedish Academy? Who knows, but who could blame him? Roth has already won every major book award, and literary-conspiracy theorists could point out that a wider world view may have helped Saul Bellow win a Nobel Prize in 1976. Like...
For example, during a unit on humanism, the students in her class are assigned to sculpt Michelangelo's David. But first, they are shown pictures of the Apuan Alps, the source of Michelangelo's finest marble.
Your choice of Albert Einstein was brilliantly appropriate on many levels [PERSON OF THE CENTURY, Dec. 31]. By recognizing Einstein as a surrogate for the contributions of science and technology and by recognizing his humanism and faults, you found in one person the important balance that we seek. Beyond acknowledging...
What sort of position can a white writer take in the context of the new South Africa? This problematic question is at the heart of South African author J.M. Coetzees writing. His first eight novels, though different in style, all explore the different modes of discourse through which he, as...