Alberto Moravia – Italian Novelist

Sergio Vacchi – Portrait of Alberto Moravia, 1969. Oil on canvas, 90 x 100 cm. @ Casa Museo Alberto Moravia,

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Given the existence …..of a personal God…. tennis … the stones … so calm … Cunard … unfinished . . .

Introduction Dermot Moran believes that “Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906–89) is the most philosophical of twentieth-century writers.” His characters exult in endless, pointless,

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Existentialism – Part I: Kierkegaard (Updated2: 27/3/11)

Introduction Today I want to write about “existentialism”. Existentialism is a mutli-faceted term. In this post, I refer to a

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Discourse on Existence Ι

Do I exist? I was recently asked to prove my existence. What follows is the first attempt. But it is

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