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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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“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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“The function of philosophy is to corrupt the youth, to alienate (or, rather, 'extraneate' in the sense of Brecht's verfremden) them from the predominant ideologico-political order, to sow radical doubts and enable them to think autonomously.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

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“A library is not a sign of accomplishment. It is a sign of desire.”
― Jeffrey J. Kripal

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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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