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...person who tried went to prison for producing unwelcome results). Such a climate is unhelpful to those seeking to get behind the contradictory and opaque face that Iran displays to the world. The country presents no shortage of paradoxes. In the past eight years, Iranians have elected both a Kant-quoting liberalizer, and a conservative firebrand Holocaust-denier. Both figures came to power through arguably free elections, in itself a strange practice for a repressive Islamic theocracy...
...play sees slaves and masters contort the roles they normally take. However, “Maids” goes deeper that simply showing a character mix-up. Channeling Immanuel Kant, Genet shows how the maids’ oppression exists only with their permission; so long as they fight each other instead of Madame, they will remain in chains...
...where Rosen will be a faculty associate. “Now we have someone who knows the debates and writing of that period exceptionally well.” Hall praised the breadth of Rosen’s intellectual interests, which has produced work on Georg Hegel and Immanuel Kant as well as more recent thinkers such as Theodor Adorno. At Harvard, Rosen will teach courses on Marxism and contemporary continental thought. He said he sees himself as helping to maintain a cross-Atlantic cultural exchange. “Being able to contribute to an American understanding of European tradition...
Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann: As for books, there were, on the philosophical side, the writings of Kant, and on the literary side, the great novel by Roger Martin du Gard, “Les Thibault” (about Europe and the First World War), and the plays and novels of Albert Camus, especially “The Plague.” Also, later, Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984” and Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon,” and Ionesco?...
...dignity. While many in America are content to smirk at Europe’s failures, or take some measure of pleasure in its impending collapse, we should all pray and hope that the continent that gave us not only Hitler and Stalin but also Beethoven, Bach, Locke, and Kant can save itself from its accelerating descent into inconsequence...