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, 2016
- 6 min
"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, 2015
- 2 min
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, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 4 min
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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