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Remembering Heraclitus: Convergences
Some notes from starting to read Richard Geldard’s Remembering Heraclitus, which picks up on some of the converging themes in my recent reading (Hadot, Plotinus, Heraclitus, Aurobindo, Beckett,...
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One Too Many Eyes
Coming across Clément Rosset’s work is akin to discovering a close new friend in adulthood; Rosset is an ally to add to that small list of thinkers, philosophers, writers (call them what you will) that...
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I see a secret link between Lucretius, Hume, Spinoza, and Nietzsche constituted by their critique of negativity, their cultivation of joy, the hatred of interiority, the externality of forces and...
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Gilbert Highet’s elegant account of Count Giacomo Leopardi urges me to make time for those notebooks awaiting my time and attention. Beckett also found Leopardi simpatico, describing himself in a...
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January: A Start
“The constant, fundamental underlying urge is surely to live more, to live a larger life.” — Ludwig Hohl, The Notes It is in the spirit of Montaigne that Ludwig Hohl writes in The Notes. You might call...
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