WoolfAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In her narrative techniques and personal ideals, Woolf was emblematic of all of twentieth-century literature. ❧ Full name: Adeline Virginia Woolf, née […]
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The Great Conversation: Education—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard We shall doubtless get to the last in due time, but what, in the first place, is education for? On
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WhiteheadAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Whitehead said Western philosophy can be described as footnotes to Plato; whether Whitehead saw the weight of the footnote he himself added
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KeynesAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard* The love of money is a root of all kinds of government. ❧ Full name: John Maynard Keynes [jôn mā-nàŕd kēnz; see our
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TocquevilleAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The legacy of the American and French Revolutions is a complicated one, and nowhere exhibits its complexity more than in the writings
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Von GoetheAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Goethe inaugurated a fundamental change in the passions that inspire literature in general. ❧ Full name: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, né
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SmithAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard To many people, capitalism is as essentially American as the stars and stripes—but where did it come from? ❧ Full name: Adam
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The Great Conversation: Authortity—Part V By Gabriel Blanchard The authority of the scholar contains certain ironies that may not show at a glance … This post is Part
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FreudAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard All too casually we toss around terms like “unconscious,” “complex,” “neurotic,” “anti-cathected sublimation” … ❧ Full name: Sigismund (or Sigmund) Schlomo Freud
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OrigenAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In the person of Origen, Christianity became for the first time an officially, and formidably, intellectual force. ❧ Full name: Ὠριγένης ὁ
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