“A reanimated world is one in which spirit and matter are not just equally regarded but recognized as mutually dependent.”
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances… that’s what life is all about, that’s its task,” the young Dostoyevsky exulted in a letter to his brother just after his death sentence was repealed — death, that great clarifying force for what it means to be alive, what the stakes and sanctities of living are.
In the two centurie...
Published on March 29, 2024 17:27