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As good as I thought it would be so far!

Very interesting (although I find Arendt sometimes goes into too much detail)

Second reading. It recounts Ulf Linde, former member of the swedish academy, life. He led an interesting life first as a jazz musician and then as an art professor in Stockholm. I'll write a longer review once I've finished.

Interesting so far. Well written but for a layman it may take a while to fully grasp everything.

"In all likelihood, given the incentives arising in customary legal systems and the resulting institutions of primitive law, the blood-feud was a valid recourse only after an attempt had been made to go to trial, long before kings became active in the law. In this way, the potential for such violence was used to force compliance with the monetary sanction set forth by the courts" [p. 25]