Tag: Tanner Lectures on Human Values
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Nation & World
Taming nature, then man
Humankind, after millennia of reluctance and ambivalence, surrendered finally to growing fixed crops — a precondition of modern states.
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Nation & World
Irony and identity
Philosopher and classicist Jonathan Lear, this year’s Tanner lecturer, begins his two-lecture look at irony and identity.