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if you need a short summary of the phenomenology of spirit you could do a hell of a lot worse than read the 20 page chapter in this that covers it

wait is this actually a really good read??

sometimes you just need a really really long book you can chip away at

born 2 read about brentanians forced 2 read about neokantians

"Thomas Friedman is a New York Times columnist. One does not associate either intelligence or depth with a New York Times columnist."

In any case. Also interesting to read about his connections to the FLN and the PLO, since the war on terror it's incomprehensible that left-wing writers & academics in America would have any direct contact with armed movements.

lack of correspondence btwn goodreads pagination & actual pagination is a nightmare. anyway very depressing reading interviews from the 90s about how india and pakistan could use a deal for kashmiri autonomy as a chance to normalize relations.

i guess most of us only know the really good ones because some of these are like "if a mean person gets angry they're even meaner" or "if you rebel you will be punished" followed immediately by "if you're servile you will suffer"

In which we get an eye-rollingly generic critique of the humanities in the university, & also a kind of fun account accusing American liberal democracy's of having built-in mechanism for inhibiting the people's ability and willingness to Do Democracy, & continuity in this between the Founders and the New Deal Progressives.

"States make money even if they do not do so as they please" flames bro

"the great financial crisis was caused by the financial equivalent of hookup culture" is an all-timer why did I never hear about this. also I think Deneen maybe thinks you shouldn't be gay.

so far aggressively fine & inoffensive (imo lots of the critiques read like something your woke anthropology prof would say) and definitely cogent at points but hysterical that for a while we were all supposed to pretend that this kind of catholic communitarianism & classicist virtue theory had anything to do with like Trump etc. other than the support of the writers