Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction: Essays on Liberalism, Socialism, and Aristocratic Radicalism
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Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human
My chum and sometime collaborator has this new book out. Friedrich NietzscheJean-Jacques RousseauLiberalismPaul FrancoPolitical philosophy
Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism
Just published. anti-rationalismEdmund BurkeEnlightenmentEric VoegelinFriedrich HayekFriedrich NietzscheGene CallahanKenneth McIntyreKierkegaardMichael Oakeshottrationalism
Discovering and Engaging Wagner
Born on this date. It’s worth giving a listen to this curated bunch of podcasts presented under the auspices of the BBC’s “Composer of the Week” series. As the one and only Bernard Williams wrote: “You can have a well-formed, deep relation to Western music while passing Wagner’s works by, finding them boring or not…
Williams on Plato: The Invention of Philosophy
Excerpt from The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy (2007) Plato invented the subject of philosophy as we know it. He lived from 427 to 347 bc, and he is the first philosopher whose works have come down to us complete. He is also the first to have written on the full…
Peterson + Rogan: Dream Team
I’ve listened to pretty much all of Joe’s podcasts as I have to Jordan’s: independently they are superb but together they bring out the absolute best in each other. I didn’t think that anything could top their first meeting but they did exactly that in this their second. They are the instantiation of Oakeshott’s metaphor of conversation…
The Case Of Wagner: A Musician’s Problem
Chose your digital format of “The Case Of Wagner: A Musician’s Problem” made available by Project Gutenberg. Of course, one should also give a close listen to this version of Parsifal from Bayreuth 2016. And yet this other question can certainly not be circumvented: what business had he actually with that manly (alas! so unmanly) “bucolic simplicity,” that…
Giacomo Leopardi
Leopardi is quite possibly my favourite poet, this despite my reading him in English and being aware that quite a bit must be getting lost. Anyway, David Bentley Hart reviews Zibaldone published a few years back pointing out in his review Leopardi’s paradoxical cast of mind as does the always insightful John Gray (second and third quotes) He had a particular…
In Defense of Our National and Religious Traditions
Interesting piece by Yoram Hazony in Mosaic. How to shore up this collapsing front? Given the history I have described, it seems likely that there is now only one way: an alliance of Old Testament-conscious Protestants and nationalist Catholics and Jews who will seek to update the biblical and Protestant heritage of the West and restore it…
Robert Musil and Nietzsche
The article examines several references to Friedrich Nietzsche made by Robert Musil in his non-fictional writings. An indication of Nietzsche’s significance for Musil is given by the fact that only one name occurs more often than Nietzsche’s in the collected works of Musil, where references to the philosopher span a period of more than forty…
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