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May 2014
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Episode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Wri...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On Arthur Schopenhauer's essays, "On Authorship and Style," "On Thinking for Oneself," and "On Genius" (all published 1851).

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