Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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| Birth: | 13th October, 1938 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Writer |
About
Redler was born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. After gaining a B.A. in Philosophy and German from Bryn Mawr, where she studied under José Ferrater Mora, Adler studied for an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard under I. A. Richards and Roman Jakobson, before pursuing her interest in Philosophy, Linguistics and Structuralism at the Sorbonne, where she gained a D. d'E.S. under the tutelage of Jean Wahl and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
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