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Slavoj Žižek, Freedom: A Disease without Cure (2023)
This is another book I read to prepare for the essay. A deceptively easy path to take in addressing the above prompt, which I figure is...
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Jul 5, 20241 min read
Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom (1941)
A book I referred to in writing an English essay on Mencken's quote: "The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be...
Haley
Jul 5, 20241 min read
E. M. Woods, The Origin of Capitalism (1999)
Even among Marxist historians there is a tendency to naturalize capitalism as a social form, E. M. Wood observes. The standard narrative,...
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Jul 5, 20242 min read
Peter Garnsey, Thinking about Property (2007)
Full Title: Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution. As a book in the series “Ideas in Context,” Thinking about...
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Jul 5, 20241 min read
Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics (2008)
What is politics? What are the tasks of political theory/philosophy? Predominantly Kantian replies follow: “politics is applied ethics,”...
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Jul 5, 20242 min read
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