#philosophy

Rather than relying on possibility alone, Alexander Kluge’s experimental miniatures engender counterfactual horizons of futurity that are made incrementally accessible to lived experience through narrative form.

In 1939, Stefan Zweig prepared a lecture on history for the PEN Congress in Stockholm, but the event got cancelled. Published shortly after Zweig’s and his wife Charlotte Altmann’s suicide in 1942, Zweig’s essay is evidence of an attempt to spread optimism in bleak times. An excerpt.