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Force

No plan survives first contact with the enemy, Field Marshal von Moltke wrote, and the same may be true of first contact with the class you are going to teach.   One year, designing a course on philosophy and literature and meaning to favor my own tastes, I chose tales from Borges, William Golding, Eco, Calvino,Continue reading “Force”

Posted byBas van Fraassen10/22/2022Posted inUncategorizedTags:Borges, Lagerkvist, Simone Weil2 Comments on Force

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