Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition by Neil Davidson

Not interested in engaging with anyone who posts like this. You can either read the book, as I innocuously suggested, or continue to cowardly lash out to anyone who critiques your concept of Nietzsche, like a child.

Where precisely in my comment is 'Nationalism" mentioned? Losurdo explicitly acknowledges Nietzsche's disdain for intra-European Nationalism. Maybe read the book before making stupid comments about it, and insulting comments towards the author (and me).

Incredible that I made that comment 7 years ago and we're still going through it :death:

Possibly, although I think it's been around 10 years since I've read it, so who knows what elements of the book I've absorbed. Perhaps I'm more invoking Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo.

Just from the précis via Haymarket Books:

"In a work widely regarded as the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking—his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics—he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche's works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists."

The book is over 1000 pages, quite meticulous and the arguments powerfully stated; looking beyond Nietzsche's philosophical texts towards his letters and other written material. The book changed my outlook on Nietzsche. Even if you will not fundamentally agree with Losurdo (who does not claim that Nietzsche should be discarded, by any means), I think there is a lot to grapple with. Highly recommend.

Have you read Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo?

Land argues that the alt-right is reaction to a Left — frank

The Alt-Right is the Frankenstein monster progressivism has built — frank

Typical right-wing tactic of blaming the Left for creating their own ideology. Regardless, I'm not at all convinced that the "alt-right" view of race is a novel conviction distinguishable from prior conservative views, some of which stem hundreds of years ago and echoed by prominent Enlightenment philosophers.

quite good

A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Thank you kindly, sir :blush:

My fiancée and I are going to France this year and I intend to visit his grave in Paris :flower:

Islamaphobia is obviously made up. Scruton has obviously done nothing wrong here. — AmadeusD

Unsure if this is simply a sarcastic remark or sincere and thus asinine, but regardless, Roger Scruton has been dead for over 5 years

We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions by Neil Davidson

On the Theory and History of Ideological Production: Juan Carlos Rodríguez and His Contemporaries by Malcolm K. Read

My reading list for 2024:

• The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis
• Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation by Jairus Banaji
• A History of China by John Keay
• A History of Japan by R.H.P Mason and J.G Caiger
• India: A History by John Keay
• Revolutionary Jews From Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for A Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights by Jonathan Israel
• The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
• Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault by Jan Rehmann
• The Book of Chuang Tzu
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
• The Castle by Franz Kafka
• Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai
• What Was Neoliberalism: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism 1973-2008 by Neil Davidson
• Rethinking Marxist Approaches to Transition: A Theory of Temporal Dislocation by Onur Acaroglu
• Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History by Heide Gerstenberger

Additionally, I've been reading One Thousand and One Nights each night since January 1st of 2024, so at the time of writing I am on Night 361

I don't agree. Imo, Trump won because too many Democratic voters preferred not to vote rather than vote for a woman president just like in 2016. Biden won 15 million more votes in 2020 than Clinton won in 2016 and 13 million more votes than Harris won this year; however, Trump received about 1 million less than he did in 2020, so the election turnout drop-off was on the Dems side. As far as I can tell, too many Americans are still not "ready" for a woman president. :brow: — 180 Proof

Not to take away from the misogyny amongst Democratic voters, but another commonality between Clinton and Harris was that the former ran within a deliberately uncompetitive primary and the latter didn't have a primary whatsoever. Personally, I think this is a stronger explanans than misogyny. Biden should have announced that he would not seek another term over a year ago so that the democrats could have an open primary. I believe whomever won that primary would have beaten Trump.

Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History by Heide Gerstenberger

Rethinking Marxist Approaches to Transition: A Theory of Temporal Dislocation by Onur Acaroglu

Probably the greatest thing written in the English language

What Was Neoliberalism: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism 1973-2008 by Neil Davidson

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai :cool:

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary

I found it to be an enjoyable read, although I'm not very knowledgeable on comparative translations. Certainly worth checking out. I enjoyed the "outer chapters" as well.

Going on vacation tomorrow. Bringing The Book of Chuang Tzu along with Gilgamesh and Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation (rereading)

Martin Palmer and Elizabeth Breuilly translation. Penguin Classics version

Started The Book of Chuang Tzu last week

Started Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault by Jan Rehmann several days ago

That's something that has always fascinated me. I'll take a look. — T Clark

I've been interested in the Mongol's since I was a boy. Nearly finished with the book. The first third focuses mostly on the origins of the Mongol Empire via Chinggis Khan but then the narrative shifts primarily towards the Jochi Ulus (the Golden Horde) and the socio-economic impact and development it had on the world.

Unfortunately I'm far more cynical and predict that he'll serve no jail time. That said, I'm still leaning towards Biden in winning the election.

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

Revolutionary Jews From Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for A Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights by Jonathan Israel

India: A History by John Keay

A History of Japan by R.H.P Mason and J.G Caiger

A History of China by John Keay

Also been slowly reading the full One Thousand and One Nights

Yeah months and months later some prose still sticks with me.

Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation by Jairus Banaji

The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis

Time for my annual reading list 2023 edition. Far fewer books read this year than in prior years, no doubt a result of having read several books that were 700+ pages, in addition to simply having less time on my hands. Next year would like to delve into Asian history, so any recommendations are welcomed. Happy New Year everyone!

• Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment by Ellen Wood (reread)
• Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
• The New Spirit of Capitalism by Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski
• 1848: Year of Revolution by Michael Rapport
• The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War by Arno J. Mayer
• Caravaggio: The Complete Works by Sebastian Schutze
• Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In by C. L. R. James
• The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai
• The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations by Benno Teschke
• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L Winberg
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark Tessler

Massive props to you dude. That book, after it very rough first 240 pages, just goes nuts. Utterly crazy, fun and brilliant! — Manuel

Finished yesterday, quite the trip, in the hallucinatory sense.

A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark Tessler

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon