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Archive: April 2015 (2 Posts)

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Depression: What It Is and How it Can Be Treated – A Conversation with Philip W. Gold

Posted by: Dan Turello

Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers, and scientists. “Insights” is featuring some of the work of this highly-accomplished group of thinkers; …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

How We Experience Time: Paul Ricoeur on Past, Present, and Future

Posted by: Dan Turello

That Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century needs little emphasis. Ricoeur wrote on many of the major themes relating to human experience, and did so extensively and methodically. A fruitful way to get a sense of his work would be to pick one of his areas of study …