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| It is difficult to describe nothing. Its relationship to something is even more difficult, especially if you are a person, which is something, but also nothing. You must already know something about nothing before reading this book. Otherwise, it wil ...more | |
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Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview
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You have missed the main point, as you suspected, but I liked your review for showing how difficult it is to express Nishida's insight.
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This is my first and last foray into Nishida Kitaro. If I am wrong in my assessment of his writings here, please enlighten me. I treat his statements as I understand them in context of Buddhist and western philosophical traditions and western theolog" Read more of this review » |
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| This counts as a holy cow book. That’s one that reveals an unsuspected horizon. Such books are rare. The holy cow moment for me was that regardless of whether you think the rock-bottom truth is some kind of Heideggerian Being or some kind of Cartesia ...more | |
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| This is an important study of narratology that seems to be designed for fellow academics in rhetoric, philology, psycholinguistics? It is nominally written in English but in a style that is all but impenetrable to English (or any) readers. I'm pretty ...more | |
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The title is ironic and illustrates the sardonic wit of the author. Is this book about a mountain? Yes and no. About a third of it concerns the political and environmental saga of the Federal Government trying to get Nevada to accept the US’s nuclear ...more |
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| Garbage is a problem for every civilization and for every household. To extract the energy you need to sustain life, you must strip it from objects that have it, leaving a pile of detritus behind. That was true even for early hunter-gatherers, who le ...more | |
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| This is an easy, enjoyable light read, well-written, with some thought-provoking ideas, but the book must be taken with two large cautions. First, Mortimer defines the Middle Ages as the period between the fall of Rome to 1600. Most people would say ...more | |
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| This is a valuable update to the lay reader’s understanding of human history and prehistory of the last ten thousand years, from when “we were” cave-persons at the end of the last ice age, to when we became farmers at the end of the bronze age collap ...more | |
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