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Existential Horror and Cats: Part II

Existential Horror and Cats: Part II

Probing the depths of the Mona Lisa's smile

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Tom Pazderka
Nov 20, 2023
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Before we can unlock the mystery of Garfield’s nonexistence, we have to turn back the clock. So let’s do that. Before existentialism and phenomenology, before Sartre, Husserl and Heidegger, there was Nietzsche, possibly the most misunderstood figure in modern philosophy. Nietzsche as is well known to us now was also history’s most famous lunatic. Throug…

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