New Philosopher – July 2019

Keeping death at a distance NewPhilosopher Illustration by Aida Novoa & Carlos Egan ...

NewPhilosopher Keeping death at a distance At this year’s Venice Biennale, Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Büchel’s installatio ...

NewPhilosopher movedthroughthestages“one’sown death”,“deathoftheself ”,“thydeath/ deathoftheother”,andthenontothe present,which ...

NewPhilosopher “It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” Nelson Mandela Photo: Nelson Mandela Capture Site monument, Sout ...

NewPhilosopher by Warren Ward When Friedrich Nietzsche first met Cosima von Bülow, heavily preg- nant, in a white flowing dress ...

NewPhilosopher science – hadprevailed, resulting in thetrajectoryof westernphilosophy eversince,fromSocrates,Plato,and Aristotle ...

NewPhilosopher his roof. Nietzsche became increas- ingly argumentative with the man he had previously put on a pedestal. Ni- etz ...

NewPhilosopher RUNNER-UP A failure of collective intelligence by Warwick Smith Humans, individually, can be in- credibly brillia ...

NewPhilosopher Ancient Futures author Helena Norberg-Hodge is fond of saying “ourarmshavegrownsolongthatwe cannolongerseewhatour ...

it’s8.47amandi’vealreadybrokenmymother’sheart. i listenedyesterday, asintelligentpeoplespokeaboutthefact thatwithoutanythingelse ...

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On grief Photo: Peruvian mummified male, by Ashley Van Haeften ...

NewPhilosopher Your sorrow is most to be feared when you have retired to your own home: for as long as your divinity is before y ...

NewPhilosopher ingviews:if the deadretainnofeel- ingwhatever,mybrotherhasescaped fromallthetroublesoflife,hasbeen restoredtothep ...

NewPhilosopher On grief “All nine? It’ll cost you.” keep, are regarded by others with bit- ter jealousy, and are more of a menac ...

NewPhilosopher Jessica Mitford No hazard To my question, “Are undertakers, in their capacity of embalmers, guardians of the publ ...

NewPhilosopher Barbara Ehrenreich Old enough to die I had a different reaction to ageing: I gradually came to realise that I was ...

The Old Man bySamuelCroxall and Death The Old Man and Death NewPhilosopher Self-Seer II (Death and Man), 1911, by Egon Schiele ...

A POOR feeble old Man, who had crawled out into a neighbouring wood to gather a few sticks, had made up his bundle, and laying i ...