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Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises.
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Interviewer Uta Blohm
Martin miller
Martin Miller is the son of Alice Miller and is also a psychotherapist; he was born in and still lives in Zürich. He has written a biography of his mother’s life, – The True ‘Drama of the Gifted Child.’ (2013) – which so far has only been published in German. To make some of the content accessible to the English-speaking world, we have interviewed the author. The following is an abridged version of the translated interview.
I’ve told Bess that, given the current circumstances, my job is easier than hers: all I have to do is die. She has the hard part; she has to live and figure out how to go on. Death’s severing…
Originating in Italy, "scattered hotels" turn alleyways into hallways and piazzas into living rooms
The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales.
« Nous, linguistes, sommes proprement atterrées par l’ampleur de la diffusion d’idées fausses sur la langue française, par l’absence trop courante, dans les programmes scolaires comme dans l’espace médiatique, de référence aux acquis les plus élémentaires de notre discipline. L’accumulation de déclarations catastrophistes sur l’état actuel de notre langue a fini par empêcher de comprendre… Lire la suite
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