Philosopher Judith Butler on the Value of the Humanities and Why We Read | Brain Pickings | June 2013 “[The humanities allow us] to learn to read carefully, with appreciation and a critical eye; to find ourselves, unexpectedly, in the middle of the ancient texts we read, but also to find ways of living, thinking, acting, and reflecting that belong
Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writers, Penned in a Letter to His Lover and Muse | Brain Pickings | August 2014 Between August 8 and August 24 of 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche set down ten stylistic rules of writing in a series of letters to the Russian-born writer, intellectual, and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé — the first female psychoanalyst, who corresponded with Freud about