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On the Name 11/10 Alex is currently reading:
On the Name (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Jacques Derrida
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Sources of Korean Tr... 01/31 Alex is currently reading:
Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by William Theodore De Bary
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Sources of Korean Tr... 01/31 Alex is currently reading:
Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 2: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)
by Ch&#39, Wm. Theodore de Bary
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January 31
Deleuze: The Clamor ... Alex gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (Paperback)
by Alain Badiou
bookshelves: contemporary-philosophy
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read in January, 2008

Alex Alex said: "Badiou does a masterly job here of fleshing out the ontological side of Deleuzian theory, delving especially into the latter's doctoral work (and possibly one of his most difficult works) on difference as such (Difference and Repetition)...more "
Sources of Korean Tr... Alex is currently reading:
Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by William Theodore De Bary
bookshelves: currently-reading
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
add to my books
 
Sources of Korean Tr... Alex is currently reading:
Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 2: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)
by Ch&#39, Wm. Theodore de Bary
bookshelves: currently-reading
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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January 27
The Pre-Platonic Phi... Alex gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
The Pre-Platonic Philosophers (International Nietzsche Studies (INS))
by Friedrich Nietzsche
bookshelves: ancient-philosophy
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Alex Alex said: "Essential reading for Nietzsche's early etymological insights into the genealogy of the Greek word "sophos", which we associate today with theoretical or technical wisdom (techne), whereas according to him it first connoted refinement and r...more "
January 26
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"Evil resides in the gaze that perceives Evil all around itself." — Hegel
Remembrance of Thing... Alex marked as to-read:
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage)
by Marcel Proust
bookshelves: classics, fiction, to-read
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Aesthetics and Polit... Alex is currently reading:
Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
bookshelves: aesthetics, contemporary-philosophy, currently-reading, political-philosophy, psychology
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The Metastases of En... Alex is currently reading:
The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality (Radical Thinkers)
by Slavoj Zizek
bookshelves: contemporary-philosophy, currently-reading, psychology
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November 28
Borges: Selected Poe... Alex is currently reading:
Borges: Selected Poems (Paperback)
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Conversations of Goe... Alex is currently reading:
Conversations of Goethe (Paperback)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Alex's favorite quotes

1938
"Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers--and spirit itself will stink.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.
The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness: thus are things well matched.
I want to have goblins about me, for I am courageous. The courage which scareth away ghosts, createth for itself goblins--it wanteth to laugh."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Evil resides in the gaze that perceives Evil all around itself."
— Hegel




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