Søren Kierkegaard — The present age is one of understanding, of reflection, devoid of passion, an age which flies into enthusiasm for a moment only to decline back into indolence. . . Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that…

By Jeffrey Steinbrink F. Scott Fitzgerald’s recreations of the Jazz Age are convincing not only because they draw upon his experiences as a charter member of the Lost Generation but also because they convey so pervasively a sense of the fundamental paradox which gave the Age its poignancy. In a…

Martin Heidegger Interview — Philosophy will be unable to effect any immediate change in the current state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all purely human reflection and endeavors. Only a god can save us. Introduction Although Heidegger was one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, few…

But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world. Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights.