Literature Fool

This blog, as the title implies, is designed to offer thoughts on literature, philosophy, writers and writing, people, places, current events, the meaning of life, famous and unknown thinkers, celebrated prose stylists, artists and their art, scholars, philosophers, fools, pariahs, introverts, wallflowers, neat freaks, fiber addicts, social wannabees and also-rans; it includes daily observations, news-driven commentaries, book reviews and "great-writer" recommendations.

Monday, June 17, 2024

Humanists, Hermeticists, Heretics, Mystics and Speculative Thinkers...

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Ramon Llull  (1232-1316) - Philosopher and Logician famous for... Meister Eckhart  (1260-1328) - Christian Mystic famous for... Nicholas of ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Hannah Arendt on Ideology...

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 "An ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the 'ri...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

My Haphazard Summer Reading List (2021)

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      Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman     An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad  Conquered City by Victor Serge Frankenstein by Mary S...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

From Lenin - Relentless Advocate of Violence

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  Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Anti-Stalinist Literature

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                                                                        Varlam Shalamov  Evgenia Ginzburg Alexander Barmine Nadezhda Mandels...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Leibniz

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - one of the most brilliant minds of all time - a true polymath...contributor to logic, mathematics, histo...

The Debate about God and the Best of All Possible Worlds (featuring Leibniz, Malebranche, and Arnauld)

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Professor Stephen Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison) has written a very wonderful, engaging, accessible account of the debate...
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