Notes on Gadamer's Truth and Method
Summary of Gadamer's Truth and Method: hermeneutic circle, fusion of horizons, effective-historical consciousness, and language as universal medium.
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Deleuze: Introduction to Difference and Repetition
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, introduction: repetition produces difference, critique of representation, and the dogmatic image of thought.
Vico: 114 Axioms for the New Science
Giambattista Vico’s Scienza Nuova axioms—ages of gods, heroes, and men; poetic wisdom; philology; and cyclical history as an alternative...
Riemann: On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Basis of Geometry
English translation of Bernhard Riemann’s 1854 Habilitation lecture—n-fold extended quantities, metric structure, curvature intuitions, and...
Schopenhauer's Critique of Kant (World as Will Appendix)
Structured summary of Schopenhauer’s appendix to The World as Will and Representation, vol. 1—where he defends, corrects, and completes Kant’s...
Walter Ong: Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue
Walter Ong on Petrus Ramus (1515–1572): anti-Aristotelian pedagogy, printed diagrams, the birth of “method,” and how print reshaped rhetoric,...