Dichter und Denker
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The coldest, cleanest water in EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
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From the knacker’s yardThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the fallen animals loved by Heinrich von Kleist & Curzio Malaparte.
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The big beige booksThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV
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SchwarzeneggerologyThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »
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The inborn germThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?
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Of Anders & KreuzwendedichThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.
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The prodigal half-roosterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom and Lea Ypi’s Free spoke past one another from half a world away. But both ask whether freedoms mean anything if they are not practiced in public, and if they are not passed on — and whether the word « freedom » means anything at all.
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Beyond thalassophobiaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck has more than twenty books to his name. It is tempting to read his fiction for glimpses of Green political futures, and his literary criticism for similar clues. How experimental can a literary politician be?