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Reading Habermas Against the Grain. Thoughts after Finishing the Three Volumes of Also a History of Philosophy
Having now traversed all three vast volumes of Habermas’s Also a History of Philosophy, I feel as though I have climbed a ziggurat hewn from the stones…
Nov 15, 2025
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Grace after the Silence
I first read Jon Fosse’s Septology years ago.
Aug 8, 2025
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Reflecting on the Glass Bead Game
For a man of Hermann Hesse’s generation, the betrayal of German academia to National Socialism must have struck like a cracked glass bead—fragile…
Jan 12, 2025
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The Dystopia of Geometry: A Reflection on We
Evgeny Zamyatin’s We is often overshadowed by its literary descendants, 1984 and Brave New World. Yet, to lump it into the same genre of dystopian…
Jan 7, 2025
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The Epic, the Novel, and the Homeless Soul: A Reflection on Lukács
The Epic, the Novel, and the Homeless Soul: A Reflection on Lukács
Jan 4, 2025
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Charles Taylor’s Ouevre
In essence, Charles Taylor has written one extended meditation, stretched across Sources of the Self, A Secular Age, and The Language Animal. His…
Jan 4, 2025
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The Need for Roots
Simone Weil
Dec 28, 2024
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