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Thore Husfeldt is 10% done with Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
First impression: For me, not great. I would have preferred a more scholarly presentation.
Oct 30, 2016 02:45AM Add a comment
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Thore Husfeldt is 52% done with The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
On Leo Strauss: “Where but in America could the Socratic practice of sceptical questioning inspire professions of faith in a national ideal? Henry James was right: America is hard on all European legacies.” (Not that I find this totally fair.)
Sep 18, 2016 06:22AM Add a comment
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

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Thore Husfeldt is 28% done with The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
Of Eric Voegelin’s impressive output: “Such logorrhea, and in a foreign tongue, inspires amazement. And suspicion, too.”
Sep 18, 2016 04:56AM Add a comment
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

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Thore Husfeldt is 20% done with Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press)
“Innovations […] arise independently of the functions that they will be selected for.” (about Human cultural innovation)
Jul 21, 2016 09:17AM Add a comment
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press)

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Thore Husfeldt is on page 236 of 801 of The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics)
Mind = blown:

“Clear speaking is speaking in such a way that words to not matter.” —Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies, footnote 50 to chapter XI.
Jul 06, 2016 12:24AM Add a comment
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics)

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Thore Husfeldt is on page 422 of 576 of Wunschdenken: Europa, Währung, Bildung, Einwanderung - warum Politik so häufig scheitert
»Kritische Haltung und der Wunsch, andere zu überzeugen, sind zwei entgegengesetzte Antriebe. Aber kritische Menschen werden – auf diese Hoffnung gründet sich mein Vertrauen in die Demokratie – auf die Dauer nur den kritischen Geist auch überzeugend finden.« Helmut Schmidt (1975)
Jun 04, 2016 12:45AM Add a comment
Wunschdenken: Europa, Währung, Bildung, Einwanderung - warum Politik so häufig scheitert

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