Activity

Part II of earlier post (Readings 6 through 10) … aaahhhh it was Dr. Steven J.’s las name …
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6) Strauss, Leo – Persecution and the Art of Writing, Glencoe, Free Press, 1952. If you have an interest in Maimonides or Spinoza there are readings here for you. I include this collection of Strauss here though for the piece entitled (same as the book) Persecution and the Art of Writing. Dr. Farrell has on at least one occasion recommended Philosophy Between the Lines (Melzer, Arthur) … this piece by Strauss deals with a similar subject.

7) D_ic_k, Steven J. – Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. An account of exactly what its title says.

8) Ransom, John Crowe – Why Critics Don’t Go Mad in The Kenyon Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, The Dante Number (Spring, 1952), pp. 331-339.
Theologism, Poetry, and Metaphor need one say more to entice? …

9) Black, Max – The Limitations of a Behavioristic Semiotic, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 56, No. 3 (May, 1947), pp. 258-272. … connected to the Affektenlehre? … I think very possibly …

10) Appleman, Philip, William A. Madden, and Michael Wolff (Eds.) – 1859: Entering an Age of Crisis, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959. Understanding a little something about Victorian English Culture may give us a little different understanding of our own culture.