A life worth living, then, is one that fully experiences the present and experiments with new ways of being. Deleuze’s ethics ...

Though more Hamans would continue to arise, the Jewish people would survive and celebrate countless Purims in a new Promised ...

It begins with a paradox. Gilles Deleuze’s work is deeply concerned with ethics—his understanding of thought is imbued with ethical principles. Yet, he is rarely the first philosopher to come ...

We were worshipping nature and acknowledging that we’re at the mercy of it, much like we are of God. Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch philosopher, famously identified God with nature itself. He saw God not ...

St Patrick’s Day parades have long been celebrated in the US. Canada has an equally strong tradition. Its 2016 census recorded 4.6 million ­Canadians with Irish ancestry – about 12pc of the population ...

He conceived and sold an idea for an obliquely autobiographical series about a philosophy professor who writes a surprise best seller on Baruch Spinoza and the subject of happiness but is secretly ...

The Book of Records is available in May 2025. Madeleine Thien is a short story writer and novelist. She is the author of novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the ...