The Destruction of Reason
Just a quick note: I recently posted a long summary of and commentary on Georg Lukacs' masterpiece The Destruction of Reason, which has...
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Jul 14, 20166 min read
"Awakenings," and the power of music
[From 2008.] Reading Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings, which is about his experiences with post-encephalitic, Parkinsonian patients. It’s a good...
Sep 28, 20152 min read
Thoughts on thinkers
[Some notes I took a while ago. They may be kind of obvious, but I think it’s interesting to adopt something like Hegel’s perspective on...
Apr 23, 20153 min read
Subversive common sense
[This is another book-excerpt, a negatively charged one this time.] Nietzsche’s self-appointed task of “revaluating values” isn’t...
Apr 18, 20153 min read
In defense of Socrates
(This is the sequel to the blog post "From the Greeks to the Enlightenment." From my book Finding Our Compass.) Nietzsche ridiculed the...
Feb 10, 20154 min read
From the Greeks to the Enlightenment
[A book excerpt.] The best way to think about the human task of living is that it should be, as Nietzsche said, a continual journey of...
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