We hear the phrase a lot today: “Faustian bargain.” Newspaper columnists use it; so do TV pundits and talk show hosts. It refers to the ancient tale of Faust whose evil covenant lends him godlike ...
How many who piously lament the “disenchantment” of the secular world would have been able to bear ordinary life in, say, seventeenth-century Europe? We are bereft, the elegy goes, because modern ...
In an election season when accusations of ‘Faustian bargains’ are flying, CU Boulder scholar Helmut Müller-Sievers reflects on what that really means Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted that ...
Mr. Simon is the author of “Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain” and the editor in chief of Belt Magazine, which covers the Rust Belt and Appalachia. At the outset of Christopher ...
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