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War reduces human beings to things -- and not just by killing them. So wrote Simone Weil, a French thinker who died in exile during World War II, in her essay "The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force." But as dehumanizing as warfare may be, it remains among the oldest (yet also the most urgent) concerns of the humanities.
In the pages of the journal WLA:...
The Power of Art in a Time of War
By SCOTT McLEMEEWar reduces human beings to things -- and not just by killing them. So wrote Simone Weil, a French thinker who died in exile during World War II, in her essay "The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force." But as dehumanizing as warfare may be, it remains among the oldest (yet also the most urgent) concerns of the humanities.
In the pages of the journal WLA:...
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