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gesang wants to read Analogia Entis by Erich Przywara

Erich Przywara: Analogia Entis (2014, Eerdmans)

Analogia Entis by Erich Przywara

Although Erich Przywara (1889-1972) was one of the preeminent Catholic theologians of his time and a profound influence on such …

gesang wants to read Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)

Northrop Frye: Fearful Symmetry (Hardcover, University of Toronto Press)

Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)

This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in …

gesang finished reading The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by Carl Gustav Jung (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, #9.1)

Carl Gustav Jung: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (2014, Princeton University Press)

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by Carl Gustav Jung (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, #9.1)

A collection of some of Jung’s most important essays on the archetypes and the collective unconscious

The Archetypes and the …

gesang finished reading Aion: Researches into the Phenomonology of the Self by Carl Gustav Jung (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, #9.2)

Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull: Aion (Hardcover, 1978, Princeton University Press)

Aion: Researches into the Phenomonology of the Self by Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, #9.2)

Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self , originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major …

gesang finished reading Proofs and Types by Jean-Yves Girard (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science)

Jean-Yves Girard, Yves Lafont, Paul Taylor: Proofs and Types (Hardcover, Cambridge University Press)

Proofs and Types by Jean-Yves Girard, Yves Lafont, Paul Taylor (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science)

This text is an outgrowth of notes prepared by J. Y. Girard for a course at the University of Paris …

gesang wants to read God and the World of Signs by Andrew Robinson (Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion)

Andrew Robinson: God and the World of Signs (2010, Brill)

God and the World of Signs by Andrew Robinson (Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion)

Christianity has been described as "a religion seeking a metaphysic". Drawing on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops …

gesang wants to read The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling by Sean J. McGrath (New Perspectives in Ontology)

Sean J. McGrath: The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling (2020, Edinburgh University Press)

The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling by Sean J. McGrath (New Perspectives in Ontology)

This is the first major effort to systematically organise and evaluate Schelling’s arguments for a Philosophy of Revelation and to …

gesang wants to read Truth and Historicity by Richard J. Campbell

Richard J. Campbell: Truth and Historicity (1992, Oxford University Press)

Truth and Historicity by Richard J. Campbell

In this scholarly but non-technical book, Campbell elucidates the concept of truth by tracing its history, from the ancient Greek …

gesang wants to read God and Personality by Clement C. J. Webb (Murihead Library of philosophy, #7)

Clement C. J. Webb: God and Personality (2014, Routledge)

God and Personality by Clement C. J. Webb (Murihead Library of philosophy, #7)

This volume is a collection of 10 Gifford lectures delivered at the University of Aberdeen in the years of 1918 …

gesang wants to read An Essay on Metaphysics by R. G. Collingwood

R. G. Collingwood: An Essay on Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, USA)

An Essay on Metaphysics by R. G. Collingwood

An Essay on Metaphysics is one of the finest works of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. …

gesang finished reading Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy by James Bradley

James Bradley, Sean J. McGrath: Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy (2023, Edinburgh University Press)

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This collection of essays by James Bradley showcases his unique vision: a speculative cosmology of …

Just... Stunning. James Bradley wrote some greatest philosophical works since Whitehead. And finally someone who read Brouwer, Peirce, Whitehead, Scotus, who was a radical voluntarist regarding the Firstness, and who saw no necessity of distinguishing between the real and the constructive.

gesang finished reading Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus by Alexander W. Hall

Alexander W. Hall: Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus (2009, Continuum)

Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus by Alexander W. Hall

Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus are arguably the most celebrated representatives of the 'Golden Age' of scholasticism. Primarily, they …

gesang reviewed Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Friedrich Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale, Richard Schacht: Human, All Too Human (1996, Cambridge University Press)

This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdale's distinguished …

Nietzsche's Best

5 stars

This, together with The Gay Science, and maybe Daybreak, are the best of Nietzsche's works. Intense, complex, subtle, but never heavy, and it is always to the point. Later he would be doing aggressive non-nuanced attacks that doesn't lead the reader to think; he seemingly wrote many of the passages only for the sake of provoking. Zarathustra has some majestic passages but it is hysterical, theatrical, and moreover a work of dubious quality.

gesang finished reading The Renaissance of the 12th century by Charles Homer Haskins

Charles Homer Haskins: The Renaissance of the 12th century (2005, Harvard University Press)

The Renaissance of the 12th century by Charles Homer Haskins

The Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century which …

gesang finished reading The New Science Of Giambattista Vico by Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico, Max Fisch, Thomas Bergin: The New Science Of Giambattista Vico (2017, Andesite Press)

The New Science Of Giambattista Vico by Giambattista Vico, Max Fisch, Thomas Bergin

A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today …

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