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Nostalgia and the great return: Milan Kundera and the Odyssey
Milan Kundera’s penultimate novel Ignorance is about two immigrants, Irena and Josef, who consider returning to their home countries after…
5 of the best philosophy-related books
Philosophers think about the most important questions in life–everything from how to face death gracefully…
Mimetic desire and immortality
Desire is like an eternal flame. We go through life stoking it—we want a better job, to live in a nicer house, to be fitter or prettier…
Milan Kundera, original sin, and the ideal form of love
A core focus of Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being is love, and it raises questions about what…
Nietzsche’s eternal return
Friedrich Nietzsche claimed his doctrine of eternal return was his most important idea, the “greatest elevation of the consciousness…