To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
Fathers roses: wole soyinka
Homecoming: roger scruton
Alone on the mountain: jane goodall
The code of pasternak: george steiner
The end of the thirteenth: vladimir ashkenazy
Thor, newton, einstein: steven weinberg
Guilt: martha nussbaum
You are there and you are not: karel appel
The greatest mystery is not the universe: edward witten
Dear mother: elizabeth loftus
When my father was still big: rutger kopland
What's mary doing in the cave: gary lynch
John the myth: stephen jay gould
The poetics of the album: dubravka ugrešić
Ugly ears: simon schama
True love gives trust: catherine bott
Innocence?: john m. coetzee
The unanswered question: richard dufallo
After the death of sophia loren?: leon lederman
Greetings from medemblik: rudi fuchs
Don't look back: tatjana tolstaja
Freeman dyson
Other states of consciousness: richard rorty
Scoundrel: györgi konrád
Three times australia: germaine greer
The ninth: yehudi menuhin
The gathering
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