The Humanities Library
Dusting off old books in search of new ideas to live by
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The Scrapbook — No. 39
1 - In this week's main piece on Walter Benjamin and “aura” we wondered how far an artwork's authenticity is bound up with its history, and the Mona Lisa got a passing mention as a picture with a rather vivid past. If you don't know its mos...
The “Aura" of the Original
Walter Benjamin and the strange afterlife of an idea
Source: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, by Walter Benjamin, 1935, translated by Harry Zohn
The Scrapbook — No. 38
A few more fragments of beauty or interest, this week featuring Akira Kurosawa's Ran like you've not seen it before.
1 - Daniel Defoe opens his pamphlet titled The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) by invoking a beautiful litt...
Is Anxiety Just the Price of Being Alive?
Source: The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich, 1952. Chapter 2
N.b. This week's post, due to unforeseen circumstances, is from the archives. It's old enough that it should be new to most of you anyway, but normal service will be resumed next w...
The Scrapbook — No. 37
A few more fragments of beauty or interest. This week features at least three of my heroes, and is, I promise, worth sticking with until the end for an absolute corker of a story about Marcel Proust.
1 - There's a passage from Dosto...
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