What Boethius described was no symptom of carceral derangement; the lady was his metaphor for the power of philosophy to breathe life back into a deadened soul. With luck, you are not reading this ...
If Henri Bergson were alive, or even remembered, they would get more. In his heyday—in the 15 years or so before the first world war—Bergson was the most famous man in the world, Emily Herring, a ...