2025
January
- C.G. Jung. The Undiscovered Self. trans. R.F.C. Hull. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2011 (1950, 1957, 1970, 1990). [5]
- The first essay is a sort of Civilization and Its Discontents for Jungians, while the second essay is a nice, clear cut overview of Jungian analysis; rather wish I had found this volume earlier.
- Laura Cumming. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death. New York: Scribner, 2023. [4]*
- The impression is one of placidity, but with rather a lot going on beneath the surface. It was always a pleasure to see what the next plate would be.
- Stanislaw Lem. The Cyberiad. trans. Michael Kandel. London: Penguin, 2014 (1965, 1972, 1974). [3]
- I think I started this two years ago and found it very slow going, perhaps because I expected it to be very serious. It is not (primarily) very serious. It savored of the past rather than the future; the sort of eighteenth-century feel to it – the mechanistic universe – was not something I had expected and took some getting used to.
- R.G. Collingwood. The Idea of Nature. Oxford: OUP, 1970 (1945). [2]
- Collingwood thinks far more clearly and writes more cogently than I could hope to, but it is peculiar that he takes god as a given, even when advocating a return to first principles.
- Torquato Tasso. Tasso’s Dialogues: A Selection. trans. and edited by Carnes Lord and Dain A. Trafton. Berkeley, CA: Univ. California Press, 1982 (1580–1594). [1]
- An unexpectedly charming selection of dialogues, mostly on social matters. Goes some way to redeeming the dialogue as a form.
(last revised: 4 January 2025)
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