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2 February

Rebecca Newberger GoldsteinKorrents

From one piece Not All Mattering Is Mattering to Others 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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20 January

Rebecca Newberger GoldsteinKorrents

From one piece "Totalitarian?" Really? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

17 March 2018

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    Middlemarch

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    Both the first two books that I’ve chosen—Middlemarch and Moby Dick, by Herman Melville—grew out of their authors’ preoccupations with Spinoza.

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    Death in Venice

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    I’m really interested in novels that are deeply Platonic, and Death in Venice is deeply Platonic.

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    The Black Prince

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    This is really idiosyncratic: The Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdoch.

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    Infinite Jest

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    Then a dean said, ‘Oh, all of our students are always clamouring to read Infinite Jest.

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25 October 2017

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    Republic

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    His Republic is the most famous of his dialogues, and it’s the first work I recommend to understand the origins of the project of applying reason—our ability to perceive logical connections, explore the implications of our beliefs—to the problems of knowing how best to live.

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    Enlightenment Now

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    What Enlightenment Now demonstrates is how far it has brought us, often kicking and screaming, into our greater collective well-being—and therefore how much we stand to lose in taking reason’s progress for granted.

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