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Alexander Carnera

Carnera is a freelance writer living in Copenhagen.
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Henry Miller's life ecology 

Jensen highlights Henry Miller's ability to navigate between lightness and heaviness, humor and pathos in a great book about the full range of the diverse author's universe.
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The evil: the powerlessness of the spirit

French-Tunisian philosopher Mehdi Belhaj Kacem wants to teach us the way to good through increased insight into evil.
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The conqueror of the useless

A true democracy must be open to dissent, difference and the useless. And only through this "conquest of the useless" can we approach the truth.
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The wisdom of the vulnerable life

Todd May is rediscovering philosophy as a life art, as a practical-therapeutic matter.
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The fire as a source of life

Georgio Agamben brings the reader on track to the essential questions of the transforming power of literature – the relation to the mystery of life itself. 
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The feeling of being alive

To be alive is to find space for the speechless, space for loss, for the superfluous, the death, the mere being, the unproductive.
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To leave his house

Henry David Thoreau's famous house at Walden Pound was both a political, architectural and ecological act. 
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The misery and magic of loneliness

Loneliness is an experience that can enrich our inner world and strengthen our fellowship, says Olivia Laing.
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Night is a light source in man

A better understanding of human nature is needed, since the only real threat that exists is man himself.
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