Lev Shestov: Philosophize with a Grenade

The Man Who Has the Incomprehensible Within His Grasp...

 

"It is terrible to watch a man who has the Incomprehensible within his grasp, does not know what to do with it, and sits playing with a toy called God!"

    ~ F. Dostoevsky to his brother Mikhail, August 9, 1838.

Olga Jegunova - W.A. Mozart: Piano Sonata No 11 in A - Major, K.331 (300i)

Dostoevsky and Religion

       The challenge of Hans Holbein’s Dead Christ.

The Ironist

 

Required Reading for this Winter of Our Discontent

 

Alberto Pasini

                                                 The Messenger.

John Steinbeck

 In its quiet, unassuming way, Cannery Row is a brilliant novel.

Susan Shillinglaw, who wrote the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition, said that, like Melville, “Steinbeck was convinced that any transcendent vision was necessarily momentary. Only in the patterns of art can one retain remnants of that truth or marshal the holistic vision that contains them."

Arabesque

                                                     Zehrah Gokdeniz.

James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley (1965) | Legendary Debate

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Role of the Church Militant

Harold Bloom - "The American Religion"

The Shadow Knows

 

                                        Photo credit: Yang Yankang