NN literary & philosophical essays · Vol. I

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40 books · 918 highlights
2026
6 books
A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s *Phenomenology* · Robert Brandom 1 highlight Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life · Giorgio Agamben 14 highlights Notes on the Synthesis of Form · Christopher Alexander 1 highlight State of Exception · Giorgio Agamben 1 highlight The Politics of Aesthetics · Jacques Rancière 13 highlights The Science of Logic · G.W.F. Hegel 1 highlight
2025
16 books
Emancipation After Hegel · Todd McGowan 69 highlights Cracking the Walnut · Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Annabel Laity 2 highlights Blood Meridian · Cormac McCarthy 44 highlights The German Genius · Peter Watson 79 highlights The Anatomy of Fascism · Robert O. Paxton 12 highlights Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem · Carol Delaney 5 highlights Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism · Benedict Anderson 48 highlights Political Theology · Carl Schmitt 1 highlight Sources of Power · Gary A. Klein 27 highlights The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee · Glyn Parry 14 highlights The Elizabethan World Picture · E.M.W. Tillyard 3 highlights The Hegel Variations: on the Phenomenology of Spirit · Frederic Jameson 13 highlights The Inheritance of Rome · Chris Wickham 5 highlights The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink 1 highlight The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe · Martyn Redy 1 highlight The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 · Arthur Schopenhauer 5 highlights
2024
7 books
Engineering a Safer World · Nancy G. Leveson and Joel Moses 42 highlights Phenomenology of Spirit · G.W.F. Hegel 1 highlight The Anarchy · William Dalrymple 5 highlights The Iliad · Homer and Emily Wilson 110 highlights The Portrait of a Lady · Henry James 176 highlights · 1 response The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli 18 highlights Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History · Douglass North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry Weingast 63 highlights
2023
4 books
The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies (Paperback)) · Brian McAllister Linn 44 highlights Cybernetics · Norbert Wiener 8 highlights Hegel on Self-Consciousness · Robert B. Pippin 2 highlights The Ends of Life · Keith Thomas 8 highlights
2021
1 book
Serving God and Country: United States Military Chaplains in World War II · Lyle W. Dorsett 11 highlights
2020
1 book
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 · Ian W. Toll 9 highlights
2019
2 books
The Rise and Decline of Nations · Mancur Olson 1 highlight Vanished Kingdoms · Norman Davies 4 highlights
2015
1 book
Middlemarch · George Eliot and Rosemary Ashton 45 highlights
2012
1 book
The Information · James Gleick 4 highlights
2010
1 book
The Ambassadors · Henry James 7 highlights