Christy Wampole
Associate Professor of French, Princeton University
Christy Wampole is an essayist and professor at Princeton University. She is the author of Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (2016) and Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st-Century France (2020).
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Beauty and aesthetics
Can culture degenerate?
Tempting it might be, but the idea that culture has become vacuous and banal comes with unsavoury implications
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Thinkers and theories
Strange and intelligent
Estranged but not alienated, devout but not obedient, philosophical but not a systematiser, Simone Weil defies conventions
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