Christopher’s review of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper > Likes and Comments
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Hi, Sorry that you dropped this but if you can force on past the introduction you'll find nearly all of the book to be a history of the ways notebooks have been used to think, with plenty of analysis and (towards the end) philosophy (Clark & Chalmers) and neuroscience for you to get your teeth into. Admittedly there's no Erich Auerbach or Carl Schmitt: although I looked up the latter, because your quotation made me curious, and I must say that his thinking about diary use is fairly pointless, as he clearly knew nothing of the history of diary writing. (To be fair, he couldn't have: no-one knew where diary writing came from until the 1970s. An interesting story, which is in the book...) If I were you I'd go to the book's excellent index and see if any topics there take your fancy. Best! Roly
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Nov 18, 2025 01:55AM
Hi, Sorry that you dropped this but if you can force on past the introduction you'll find nearly all of the book to be a history of the ways notebooks have been used to think, with plenty of analysis and (towards the end) philosophy (Clark & Chalmers) and neuroscience for you to get your teeth into. Admittedly there's no Erich Auerbach or Carl Schmitt: although I looked up the latter, because your quotation made me curious, and I must say that his thinking about diary use is fairly pointless, as he clearly knew nothing of the history of diary writing. (To be fair, he couldn't have: no-one knew where diary writing came from until the 1970s. An interesting story, which is in the book...) If I were you I'd go to the book's excellent index and see if any topics there take your fancy. Best! Roly
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