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The Long View: Being and Time

Heidegger's star has dimmed a bit, but his heavy German prose is still famous. Being and Time By Martin Heidegger Translated from the German Seventh Edition By John Macquarie & Edward Robinson First edition (Sein und Zeit) 1927 __________ HarperPerennial 2008 589 Pages, US$19.9 9 ISBN 978-0-06-157559-4

The Long View: The Red Book Liber Novus

I can't add anything to this. Enjoy. The Red Book Liber Novus By Carl Gustav Jung Edited by Sonu Shamdasani Preface by Ulrich Hoerni Translated from the German by Mary Kyburz, John Peck & Sonu Shamdasani 2009, W.W. Norton & Company Philemon Series 416 Pages US$122.

The Long View 2009-09-26: Jung in the 21st Century

It isn't at all clear that Carl Gustav Jung's reputation survived the publication of his most famous work, Liber Novus, known as the Red Book. Both John Reilly and Tim Powers have made use of his ideas, but the sheer strangeness of the work makes it

The Long View: Marcus Aurelius: A Life

Another Roman history lesson, courtesy of Frank McLynn's biography of Marcus Aurelius. I have been slowly re-reading [for probably the twentieth time] G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man, and I also find Chesterton's description of Classical Rome strikingly allusive. For Eastern Christians, the Roman

The Comtemplative Life

I'm going to break from my chronological reposting of John J. Reilly's The Long View for a bit, because I read a fascinating book review on SlateStarCodex, BOOK REVIEW: MASTERING THE CORE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA. I noticed that Scott Alexander's review was oddly

The Long View: Augustine: A Biography

I don't have much to add to this fine book review of a biography of St. Augustine, other than to highlight this: John of Eclanum Augustine: A Biography By Peter Brown University of California Press, 2000 Originally Published 1967 548 Pages, Various Prices ISBN 0-520-22757-3 A Review By

Star Wars Super Graphic Book Review

by Tim Leong Chronicle Books, 2017 176 pages ISBN 978-1452161204 I received this book for free as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program. This is a great book. And I'm a huge Star Wars nerd, which is why I think it's a great book. Hear