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...concluded his 40-minute speech with a call for a "humanist revolution" to overthrow the corporate system...
Divinity in a Drawing. In Dürer's day, art works were valued like dry-goods-by the size, hours of labor and the material. As a new humanist, he protested that as art represented man more accurately, it approached divinity more closely. So a tiny drawing, if divinely inspired, could be more artistic than a giant altarpiece. "Verily, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it," Dürer declared. And to make certain that his insight would be recognized, he became one of the first to sign and date even his most...
...ruled Russia for 31 fleeting months before he was overthrown. Three months later Red sailors forced their way into the Constituent Assembly and overthrew the elected government. His "turning point" is not the usual, lumped-together Russian Revolution as a whole; rather, it is the catastrophic overturn of his humanist, basically democratic regime by what turned out to be the brutal, wholly totalitarian Bolsheviks. It is a point the world has never fully grasped...
Maxim Gorky's life was the irresistible legend: unschooled Volga boatman turned great writer, angry appellant for Red Revolution, friend of Tolstoy and Lenin, humanist who loathed repression, diver to The Lower Depths and the grim, gritty world of his Childhood. In fact, judging from this careful exhumation of the man by Dan Levin, sometime novelist and lifelong Gorkyite, Gorky was at once a less noble and more tragic figure than his legend suggests...
...rehabilitated, at least in Goethe's version. He ended up in charge of a kind of symbolic public-works program, draining swamps and reclaiming land from the sea, thus creating new territory where millions might live "not in security, but active and free." To Goethe, the serene humanist poet, it seemed like the perfect task for a character snatched back from the brink of damnation...