Franz Kafka, the embodiment of anxiety and solitude. His life was filled with the anguish of family, love, work, and creation. We follow the life of this existentialist literary giant. Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, Czech Republic, as the third son of Hermann Kafka (1852–1931), a merchant, and Julie Löwy (1856–1934), in a Jewish middle-class family. In Czech, “Kavka”...
Anxiety and loneliness are themes that permeate Franz Kafka’s life and work. Through his life and his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis, we examine how he expressed the depths of the modern human psyche. The Life of Franz Kafka Franz Kafka, a German-Jewish writer, was a novelist who explored human existence, alienation, and nihilism within modern society. He is widely recognized as an...
Albert Camus’s masterpiece The Stranger explores the absurdity humans encounter in a meaningless world, offering profound reflections on life, death, and freedom. The novel The Stranger is invariably described as a work of the literature of the absurd. The story begins by following the protagonist Meursault’s actions in the town after he returns from his mother’s funeral...
This blog post explores the potential and societal impact of the Anti-Data Movement, which opposes a future society centered on big data, and how it might develop. The book Homo Deus depicts that the future of human life is not necessarily bright. While the author’s dystopian outlook is intriguing, it has a minor flaw: it does not sufficiently consider the potential for opposition...
In this blog post, based on Dawkins’ meme theory, we explore the role memes play in cultural evolution, their essence, and their evolutionary process. In his book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins presents a gene-centered theory of evolution, describing living organisms as ‘survival machines for genes’. He argues that genes act selfishly to replicate themselves and that all...
This blog post delves deeply into whether genetic engineering technology surrounding designer babies represents an ethical choice or human progress. Regarding the question of what it would mean to genetically engineer children, Michael Sandel, author of ‘The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering,’ fundamentally dissects the moral and ethical issues. Assuming...
This blog post explores the future of scientific and technological development as presented in Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ and its potential impact on human happiness. While Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Sapiens’ also addresses how the end of Homo sapiens might unfold, people have long imagined and predicted what the future might look like. However, we must not stop at merely...
Meet Spain’s great author Miguel de Cervantes and his masterpiece Don Quixote. Discover the charm of this work blending satire and humanity through a brief commentary! Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, east of Madrid, the capital of Spain. He was baptized in the Gothic-style Church of Santa María la Mayor in Alcalá de Henares. While a baptismal...
Ernest Hemingway, who revolutionized modern literature with his concise and powerful prose. We delve deeply into his life and the literary world born from his experiences, including the Spanish Civil War, examining his stories that capture human nature and the essence of life. Hemingway’s literary world is one where violence and death abound, reminiscent of the ‘Valley of the Shadow...
Through Michael Sandel’s ‘The Ethics of Life’, we explore the ethical issues surrounding genetic engineering and human enhancement, examining the values of fairness and dignity. The Antarctic expedition team of renowned scholar Charles Wells discovers traces of a 17-meter giant during their exploration and finds evidence of a civilization more advanced than our own. Meanwhile, his...