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Andrew McNeely
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The greatest challenge in reading Taylor–at least for me–is following his mode of thought. He’ll argue a point for several pages, tricking the reader, so to speak, into accepting it before negating the point for several more pages. Then, just when you’ve accepted the negation as his primary point, he spends several more pages showing how both sides connect and mutate into something else. Damn Hegelians!
— Oct 22, 2025 04:41AM
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Andrew McNeely
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I did not expect part II to finish with a section on art history as a means of exploring the construction, and one such source, of our modern identity – but I dig it!
— May 13, 2024 07:53AM
Andrew McNeely
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“The existential predicament in which one fears condemnation is quite different from the one where one fears, above all, meaninglessness. The dominance of the latter perhaps defines our age.” (p. 18)
— Dec 30, 2023 08:12AM
