What to do about poetry?
The lyric poets are probably the most difficult part of the Great Books
I’m mindful in extolling the Great Books of not falling into the trap of what John Pistelli called “philosophy supremacy”. Which is to say, I’ve got this great big list of books, but lately I’ve just been talking about Aristotle and Freud and Nietzsche. And that’s because it is, frankly, a lot easier to talk about non-fiction. I wrote an entire essay on…
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