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Book Review: “Time of the Magicians” — The Search for the Language of God

In his book, Wolfram Eilenberger has provided an absorbing view of a period in Western intellectual history that was committed to the new.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ernst Cassirer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, philosophy, Time of the Magicians, walter benjamin

Book Review: “Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life” — Intimations of a Seminal Thinker’s Aura

The authors have used their research well. Beyond applying an abundance of detail to trace his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Eiland and Jennings have managed to intimate—though perhaps not to capture—something more elusive: a sense of Benjamin’s aura.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: critic, German Jewish intellectual, Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings, philosophy, walter benjamin, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

Culture Vulture: The MET at the Mall

Reviewed By Helen Epstein An hour and a half before curtain, operagoers are lining up at the AMC 10 cineplex in Burlington, Massachusetts across the road from the mall. Forty-five minutes later, the only available seats in Theater 3 are in the first two neck-craning rows. It’s 12:15 p.m., a sunny Saturday in February when […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Film, Music, Opera Tagged: BOCCANEGRA, Carmen, Culture Vulture, James Levine, LIVE OPERA, MET HD LIVE, OPERA ON FILM, PLACIDO, walter benjamin

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