Kieran Setiya
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British-born philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on ethics and the philosophy of mind; author of Midlife (2017) and Life Is Hard…
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Philosophy is prose, not poetry. (opens korrents.com)
“Philosophy is not poetry, but prose.”
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Thinking of yourself as art's medium rather than its source frees you from the inhibition of art as self-expression. (opens korrents.com)
“One of Johnstone’s most profound ideas, I think, is that we are inhibited by the idea of art as “self-expression”—and that we can disinhibit ourselves by thinking of ourselves as its medium, not its source.”
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A language's mere incompleteness is not a defect. (opens korrents.com)
“it’s true that we introduce new words, but we should resist the idea that mere “incompleteness” is a defect”
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Philosophy is prose, not poetry. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Summer Before the Dark (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Summer Before the Dark is emblematic and symptomatic; it’s a canonical depiction of the stereotypical female midlife crisis of the 1970s.”
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The Information (opens rcmnd.app)
“If The Summer Before the Dark is a classic feminist novel about a midlife crisis, Martin Amis’s The Information is the great non-feminist novel about a midlife crisis.”
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Middle Age (opens rcmnd.app)
“In this respect, Middle Age is like another great memoir that might have been on my list: Marina Benjamin’s The Middlepause, which ranges from Edith Wharton to Colette to Carl Jung.”
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The Summer Before the Dark (opens rcmnd.app)