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  1. 01

    Politics

    Power, representation, and the order that public language builds.

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    Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware: soldiers row a boat through river ice
    Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851 · The Met
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    Sociology

    Institutions, habits, and the unwritten rules of everyday life.

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    Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Harvesters: peasants rest under a tree beside a wheat field
    Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565 · The Met
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    Philosophy

    Thinking itself: attention, patience, knowledge, and error.

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    Gustave Moreau's Oedipus and the Sphinx: the sphinx clings to Oedipus on a mountain path
    Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864 · The Met
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    Cinema

    Images on the screen, solitude in the dark, and the ways we look.

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    Edgar Degas's The Dance Class: dancers in white tutus wait as their teacher watches
    Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, 1874 · The Met
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    Literature

    Reading, writing, and the long work books do on a person.

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    Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Young Girl Reading: a girl in yellow reads a small book
    Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, c. 1769 · National Gallery of Art
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    Economy

    Debt, value, and trust: the moral side of money.

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    Marinus van Reymerswaele's A Moneychanger and His Wife: a couple weigh coins over a ledger
    Marinus van Reymerswaele, A Moneychanger and His Wife, 1538 · Alte Pinakothek, Munich