Repensar Kafka

Is Franz Kafka Overrated? - Joseph Epstein - The Atlantic

«(...) Kafka, in other words, is given a pass on criticism. The argument is that he cannot finally be explained, but merely read, appreciated, and reread until his meaning, somehow, washes over you. But what if this meaning seems oddly skewed and in our day even outmoded, in the way great literature never is?(...)»

Stephen Pinker e o declínio da violência

Pascal Bruckner e o ecologismo: A religião do século XXI

Against Environmental Panic - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

«(...) Progress is a curse: It forbids us to be content with our condition, makes us avid for the slightest innovation, and the phenomenon is amplified in a mass society in which millions of individuals are in the grip of the demon of rapacity. "The superfluous is something very necessary," said Voltaire. But this appetite is both diabolical and mediocre; apart from the fact that it gives rise to a factitious abundance, it arouses the desire of the masses, who aspire in vain to equal the affluence of the most prosperous groups.

Fortunately, in the depths of the abyss, redemption is possible: We can mend our arrogant ways by adopting an extremely ascetic code of behavior.(...)»

Carl Sagan, ciência e espiritualidade

Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality | Brain Pickings

Ferramentas para pensar

Daniel Dennett - Tools for Thinking | Point of Inquiry

Progresso. Novo livro de John Gray