Essay on Philosophical Method" - R.G. Collingwood, underway...[now finished] — Pantagruel
The last chapter, on philosophy as literature, really is world class and worth reading on its own. — Pantagruel
I didn't intend it to be so but they are oddly related. — Valentinus
Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
Various bits by Judith Shklar, particularly the Liberalism of Fear.
Works of Love, Soren Kierkegaard.
I didn't intend it to be so but they are oddly related. — Valentinus
The first book I listed is a fiction, presenting an emperor musing on the best kind of Empire to shape. — Valentinus
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/19/history..Hadrian is the kind of political leader whose behaviour seems distinctly recognisable, whose ambitions and conflicts we can almost share.
That feeling of familiarity has been boosted by Marguerite Yourcenar's fictional, pseudo-autobiography of the emperor, Memoirs of Hadrian. Published in 1951, and once hugely popular (it now seems to me rambling and frankly unreadable), it took the modern reader inside Hadrian's psyche - presenting the emperor as a troubled and intimate friend, in much the same way as Robert Graves made the emperor Claudius a rather jolly great-uncle. — Mary Beard
Thomas Moynihan - Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History — StreetlightX
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