The Narcissus Syndrome Revisited

“Few animals realize
that their mirror image is an illusion”.
Martin Gardner
“The image man has of himself is his limit.”
Saint Exupery
Marshall McLuhan in chapter four of his seminal book: Understanding Media tells us that the technologies we invent and use daily have, by themselves and in themselves, regardless of their content, certain effects on our nervous system.
In [...]

20th-Century Literary Genres in a Nutshell: Part 2

Here is a continuation of a short list of literary schools and movements defining the content and styles of novelists, poets, and dramatists who have flourished in the past 100 years.

Virginia Woolf – A room of one’s own

An extended essay
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But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what, has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I will try to explain. When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what [...]

Theism and Atheism – Max Horkheimer 1963

Crimes committed in the name of God are a recurrent theme in the history of Christian Europe. The ancients practiced torture and murder in war, on slaves (who were supplied by the wars) and as a form of entertainment: the circenses. But in spiritual matters the emperors were relatively tolerant. If the Christians were singled [...]