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Now showing — A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful · 5 works
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Thirteen episodes of wonder. Sagan's tour of the universe established science documentary as philosophical inquiry.
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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.
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From apes to stargate. Cinema's most ambitious vision of human evolution and cosmic mystery.
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Ultra-violence and behavioral conditioning. Free will versus state control in a dystopian Britain.
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A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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