In Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486), one of the masterpieces of the era, Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) describes man as “the most fortunate living thing worthy of all admiration,”“a great miracle,” and “a truly remarkable being” whose “rank” is “to be envied not only ...
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It’s like something out of a Heinlein story, from an era when we actually still believed that humankind could go forward, that science wasn’t a Catch-22, and progress was not some silly notion that never actually happened. And think about what it means if it actually happens. “Well, ...
Yet from where we currently stand, 17 and a bit years in the clear, you really get a sense of an era of bountiful cultural riches. The decade gave birth to some supreme talents, from Paul Thomas Anderson to Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson. Yet in compiling this survey we’ve chosen ...