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Reflection on an Anecdote about Goethe and Hoelderlin
The Friendenthal biography of Goethe relates the following anecdote about one of the few occasions on which Goethe met Hoelderlin: It was at some minor social event, and Hoelderlin approached Goethe to challenge him about something to do with the public. Goethe notoriously was, at various times, indifferent or apathetic or cynical about the needs, wants, thoughts and capabilities of the public peo
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Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem (Modern European Philosophy):
"All-around great work. Chapter "On the Genealogy of Faith in Revelation" is especially worth reading. "
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| Weiner's main theses about the CIA are that it has consistently failed to serve its primary role as an intelligence-gathering operation, and that in its other capacities it is generally incompetent. The book is a series of short, roughly ten-page cha ...more | |
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Henry James: Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers:
"Not as tremendous as I had hoped, but this compendium of James' literary criticism appealed to me on a level which shined a light on many of my literary icons, in particular George Eliot, that I was grateful to read the pages therein. Three stars."
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| This is a history of China from the beginning of the Opium Wars / 'Century of Humiliation', going up to the present (here, 2010, or just before the beginning of the Xi era). As this is Kissinger, the focus is on the Mao and Deng eras (during which th ...more | |
"If yellow betokens infidelity,
I am an infidel. I could not bear a yellow rose ill will because books said that yellow boded ill, white promised well. I have never been a poetry guy, and this is the first complete poem collection, maybe even proper po" Read more of this review » |
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“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”
― The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
― The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
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