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Marina Gerner, freelance feature writer & critic

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Category: Philosophy

Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?

Posted on December 10, 2019February 12, 2021 by marinagerner

I recently went to a public lecture at LSE hosted by the Forum for European Philosophy. The discussion was entitled… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?

The Economist’s 1843: The malleability of our minds

Posted on January 2, 2019November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

A new show about consciousness takes a terrifying look at how scientists, philosophers and artists deal with “the hard problem”… Read more The Economist’s 1843: The malleability of our minds

Times Literary Supplement: Book Review of Martha Nussbaum’s “Political Emotions”

Posted on February 26, 2014February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

“The public culture needs to be nourished and sustained by something that lies deep in the human heart and taps… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Book Review of Martha Nussbaum’s “Political Emotions”

Philosophy Now Magazine: What did Mary know?

Posted on November 1, 2013February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

Imagine a girl called Mary. She is a brilliant neuroscientist and a world expert on colour vision. But because she… Read more Philosophy Now Magazine: What did Mary know?

Some poetry while you’re here

In a crowded London shop
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

– W.B. Yeats

How dreary – to be – Sombody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

– Emily Dickinson

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

– Wendy Cope

Always to shine,
to shine everywhere,
to the very deeps of the last days,
to shine—
and to hell with everything else!
That is my motto—
and the sun’s!

– Vladimir Mayakovsky

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

– WH Auden

I used to think all poets were Byronic-
Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
And then I met a few. Yes it’s ironic-
I used to think all poets were Byronic.
They’re mostly wicked as a ginless tonic
And wild as pension plans.

– Wendy Cope again

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