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Reflections on four books recently read, by Marion Milner, Doris Lessing, Robert Burton, and Antonia Pont — on methods of organising oneself.
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I probably would!

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The latest on Hegel's Preface to the Phenomenology -- this time turning to his polemic against Schelling and the debate over metaphysical first principles. Whew!
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Broken Middle

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My attempt at an accessible introduction to the thought of Erich Auerbach and his history of literary technique -- focused on the question of how the everyday became fit for serious represention.
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Notes on the rational ambitions of literary criticism, its systematic tendencies, and its presumption of an intelligible order in the literary object.
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Nicolas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time (c. 1634-36).

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A commentary on Hegel’s concept of history as totality and the task of philosophy in revolutionising historical consciousness.
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A new commentary on Hegel’s criticism of intuition as the sovereign faculty of Romantic philosophy.
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Cosimo Rosselli, "Madonna and Child with Three Angels" (c. 1478-1480).

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Paul Klee, "A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast" (1920).

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Paul Klee, "It Weeps" (1939).

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Paul Klee, 'Forgetful Angel' (1939).

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The first in a series of commentaries on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology, beginning with the problem of philosophy’s proper genre, style, and structure.
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The first in a series of commentaries on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology, beginning with the problem of philosophy’s proper genre, style, and structure.
tinyurl.com/yeura63v

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Some thoughts on some books 📚
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“As something presupposed, reason and faith are abstract, empty representations; for them to become concrete they must be explicated and viewed as unfamiliar” (Hegel, History of Philosophy, II.132).

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On Hegel's mixed metaphors, the mismatch of word and image, and making the best of abstraction.
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A new essay on Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, the conflict of reason and imagination, and Burton's attempts to escape the universal folly that his work diagnoses and performs.
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A new essay on Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, the conflict of reason and imagination, and Burton's attempts to escape the universal folly that his work diagnoses and performs.
tinyurl.com/4hsw4aux

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A new essay on Gillian Rose’s final poetic works, unhappy consciousness, and the Pearl poet’s representations of the absolute.
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A new essay on Gillian Rose’s final poetic works, unhappy consciousness, and the Pearl poet’s representations of the absolute.
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In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...

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In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...

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meanwhile Greg @thewastedworld.bsky.social has a new blog up and running. Go and subscribe to that instead!

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The Wasted World | Gregory Marks | Substack Essaying in criticism. Click to read The Wasted World, by Gregory Marks, a Substack publication. Launched 6 minutes ago.

The Wasted World
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The Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green Knight The final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio…

A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...

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The Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green Knight The final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio…

A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...

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