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On Criticism
On Criticism ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The following brief remarks on the critical faculty are chiefly intendedto show that, for t...
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Perspectives on literature, aesthetics, translation, and the worlds that books open up.
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On Thinking for Oneself
On Thinking for Oneself ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful asone th...
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On Men of Learning
On Men of Learning ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER When one sees the number and variety of institutions which exist for thepurposes of edu...
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On the Study of Latin
On the Study of Latin ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The abolition of Latin as the universal language of learned men,together with the r...
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Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation SUSAN SONTAG The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory,magical; art was...
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Modern Fiction
Modern Fiction VIRGINIA WOOLF In making any survey, even the freest and loosest, of modern fiction, it is difficult not to ta...
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction WALTER BENJAMIN PREFACE When Marx undertook his critique of the capi...
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On Authorship
On Authorship ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for thesubject's sake, an...
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