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A new translation from the French of Paul Valéry's L'Âme et La Danse (1925). In this work, Valéry interrogates the dualist relations between body and mind, movement and thought, and dance and philosophy. Valéry employs a mock Platonic dialogue to explore these themes, in which Socrates, Phaedrus, and Eryximachus observe dancers.Best known as a poet, Valéry (1871-1945) also published books, essays, and writings connected to philosophy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twelve times.

This essay represents Josiah Royce's 1899 Harvard Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality. Royce posits that reality consists of one unified aspect, the Absolute, which conditions all being. By situating humans within this infinite Absolute, a relation of individual existence to immortality emerges.Royce (1855-1916) is known as a leading proponent of the philosophy of absolute idealism. Royce's notable related works include The World and the Individual (1899-1901), and The Philosophy of Loyalty (1908).