By Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Scharfstein starts off with essays at the nature of philosophy itself, relocating from an autobiographical account of the rigors of being a comparativist to philosophy’s functionality within the open air global to the phobia of demise in Kant and Hume. From there he explores a magnificent array of artwork: from China and Japan to India and the West; from an essay on sadistic and masochistic physique paintings to 1 at the epistemology of the deaf and the blind. He then returns to philosophy, writing on Machiavelli and political ruthlessness, then at the ineffable, and closes with a evaluation of Walter Kaufmann’s multivolume examine the essence of humanity, Discovering the Mind. Altogether, those essays are a testomony to adventurous inspiration, the sort that leaps to the furthest reaches of the prospective.
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