What thread? I thought he was responding to my thing about thucydides. Is there a thread somewhere about the Peloponnesian War? Or maybe also about the Trojan War? Do tell, always interested in those two.Originally Posted by HungaryTom
What thread? I thought he was responding to my thing about thucydides. Is there a thread somewhere about the Peloponnesian War? Or maybe also about the Trojan War? Do tell, always interested in those two.
1. Use evidence to rule out illegitimate claims. 2. A sensation of conviction does not legitimize a claim.
Thucydides-eternal wisdom.
There is a 'thread' also outside FL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_School
With tons of books to read.
Unless I missed suthin', the Thoukster is not mentioned on that Eternal Wisdom thread.
1. Use evidence to rule out illegitimate claims. 2. A sensation of conviction does not legitimize a claim.
The Greeks are mentioned a thousand times in the books of Hamvas Bela another scholar from that 'school'.
That FL thread was rather about
that:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_an...teries_of_Love
Author belongs to the previous thread.
Regards.
Mishima's embrace of fascism intrigues me also; whatever his personal
orientation, and I believe his psychological deterioration, Occidental
paranoia, fascism, and public suicide overshadows his literary legacy.
A general freak. Occidental paranoia would be a good study for an English language book. Kind of a counterpart to Said's extremely annoying book Orientalism.
1. Use evidence to rule out illegitimate claims. 2. A sensation of conviction does not legitimize a claim.
Glad to see Berkeley isn't rubbing off on you....
Being critical of Said, and of radical politics and of postmodernism as well, is a tough row to hoe at a place like Berkeley; but I have been trying to walk the line. Keith Windschuttle's The Killing of History has helped me walk it, and so has Camille Paglia's refreshing Sexual Personae which gives the only sophisticated look at gender that does NOT try to deconstruct it. To tell you the truth, the Lounge has helped too, in many small ways ...
1. Use evidence to rule out illegitimate claims. 2. A sensation of conviction does not legitimize a claim.
Ouch, Doran. I had a postmodernist Lit prof at my local community-college who had a 'tude the size of West Texas toward any dissent from his view, so I cringe at what Berkeley must be like. You're a far braver man than I, sir, being in the lion's den...
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It's brutal, man. Brutal.
1. Use evidence to rule out illegitimate claims. 2. A sensation of conviction does not legitimize a claim.
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