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Hendrik is Currently Reading

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Geschichte des Neukantianismus (Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies 19) (German Edition)

by Andrzej J. Noras

bookshelves: 19th-century, 20th-century, german-history-and-culture, german-philosophy, history-of-philosophy, intellectual-history, kant-studies, philosophy-of-science, currently-reading

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Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing

by Frederick C. Beiser

bookshelves: 18th-century, aesthetics, german-philosophy, history-of-philosophy, intellectual-history, philosophy, currently-reading

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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

by Katharina Pistor

bookshelves: economics, currently-reading

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“When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.”
― Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

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“We see so much that we in fact see nothing, and we know so much that we no longer possess anything that is our own, that is to say, something we could not have learned, something that arises out of the virtues and errors of our own self.”
― Johann Gottfried Herder

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“Ideology is not a conceptual frame externally imposed on the wealth of reality, it is our experience of reality itself.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

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“There are certain memories that remain inviolate to the ravages of time. And to those of suffering. It is not true that everything is colored by time and suffering. It is not true that they bring everything to ruin.”
― Han Kang, 흰

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