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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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A Love Supreme
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and power.
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A Seat at the Table
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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A Room of One's Own
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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A Lover's Discourse
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
1980s
Thirteen episodes of wonder. Sagan's tour of the universe established science documentary as philosophical inquiry.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1960s
A lawyer defends a Black man in Depression-era Alabama. Justice through a child's eyes.
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A Love Supreme
1960s
A four-part spiritual suite. Jazz as prayer, devotion, and transcendence.
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March Comes in Like a Lion
2010s
A teenage shogi prodigy battles loneliness and depression. Found family and quiet resilience.
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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Books 1990s
A Fine Balance
Four characters navigate India's Emergency period. Compassion and cruelty in precise balance.
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Music 2010s
A Seat at the Table
Black womanhood, anger, and healing. R&B as political and personal manifesto.
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Film 1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey
From apes to stargate. Cinema's most ambitious vision of human evolution and cosmic mystery.
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Essays 1920s
A Room of One's Own
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. Feminism's foundational essay.
Books 1970s
A Lover's Discourse
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view. Barthes calls them "figures"—gestures of the lover at work.