#Walter Benjamin

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Information will never replace illumination,” Susan Sontag prophesied shortly before her death, before the birth of the social media newsfeed, as she considered the conscience of words and writer’s responsibility to society. A generation earlier,

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think French philosopher Frederic Gros tells us that walking is a route to entirely being ourselves and experiencing the sublime. He has a bias towards the wondering hikes of Nietzsche and Kerouac but has a place for urban strollers too. His book reminds