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The CCRA blog is authored by Columbia undergraduate researchers, who are invited to reflect on all aspects of the research process and their own undergraduate research experiences, beginning (but not ending) with the Core.
Category Archives: Literature
Al-Ghazzali & the Core, or, A Mystically Informed Approach to CC
It’s almost a bit of a joke in Middle Eastern Studies that Descartes stole ‘I think, therefore I am’ from Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali. The argument is convincing, though al-Ghazzali would have to step into the longer line of people Descartes … Continue reading
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“To The Lighthouse” and Endings
I spent several hours of my last winter break as a Columbia student rereading To The Lighthouse. The only other time I had read it had been three years earlier, in Literature Humanities. I remembered finding it dense and tiring, … Continue reading
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