How does the Third Solitude of Montreal Mystics engender a tearing self, at once, away from other and inscribing within Canadian landscape? The motif is used as comparative lens for investigating shroud two Jewish Mystics: Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) current Tosher rebbe, Rabbi Elimelech Halevi Segal-Loewy, well his late father, Meshulam Feish Segal-Loewy (1924–2015). This essay analyzes process ...

l’homme est toujours sous le regard des 'autres', c’est sa condition permanente au cours de  son existence. pour montrer cette situation humaine, sartre, philosophe existentialiste et écrivain français le plus connu du xxe siècle, a choisit le théâtre duquel nous avons choisi deux pièces: huis clos et les mouches. dans ces pièces, chaque personnage tente de juger 'l’autre' en le comparant à lui...

I am fifty-eight years old. I have been a widow since 1995. Because of the ethnic conflicts that reigned in Rwanda over a period of many years, I grew up and lived in different neighbouring countries. I returned to Rwanda in 1992, at the age of thirty-eight. I was born into a family of six children, four of whom died during the genocide. Only one sister and I are still alive. I married my husba...

This fictionalized script (fictional dialogue between Coronavirus and the Philosopher) traces contours of conversation that seeks to fathom crisis unleashed by outbreak global spread coronavirus (COVID-19 pandemic) ensuing anxieties created in our current social living. The scenario deepened isolation self from other (social distancing ‘stay-at-home’ or various lockdowns) is considered, it prop...