The Origins of Western Law: Early Greek Jurisprudence
Michael Gagarin’s Early Greek Law: how classical Greek legal procedure grew with literacy, oral vs written norms, and what “law” meant before and...
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Omegarus: Grainville's Last Man and Dying Earth
Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville’s Le dernier homme (1805): genealogy of dying-Earth SF from Omegarus through Hodgson, Wells, and Jack Vance’s...
The Easter Controversy (x3)
The fascinating history of bitter disputes over Easter's date that shaped church politics, from Jewish Passover origins to medieval calendar wars
The quintessence of dust
Reflections on humanity's paradoxical nature as both noble and wretched, exploring the tension between our divine aspirations and earthly limitations
Calendratics: debt and time
A quick reflection on the Roman and Christian implications of the calendar
Notes on Gadamer's Truth and Method
Summary of Gadamer's Truth and Method: the hermeneutic problem of application, fusion of horizons, and language as the medium of understanding.
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...