Hector Wu

Start with Alexander the Great (Plutarch’s bio) then read Poetics

Deutsche Unternehmer finanzierten das NS-Regime – und profitierten davon. Der Historiker David de Jong erklärt, warum ihre Familien bis heute zu den Reichsten zählen. trib.al/rWikVtM

David Butterfield tells us everything that is known about the life of Lucretius. The Fowler Lecture 2026. Set aside an hour to listen, learn, and enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4TIC…

Old school correspondence had a crucial role earlier in academic life.

Thomas Pangle just uploaded this: A Translation of the Texts to which Strauss Refers his Readers in his Footnotes to Natural Right and History, chap 4, "Classic Natural Right" This is a massively useful resource—and a great reason to re-read NRH 4. academia.edu/166249491/A_Tr…

この本，めちゃくちゃ面白そう．論理の多元論に反対して，唯一の「正しい」論理が存在するという一元論を擁護する．論理体系「について」推論する際のメタ論理は多元的ではあり得ないのでは？という直観があるので，気になる． academic.oup.com/book/43997

The importance of deep reading and critical thinking as our brains adapt to digital distractions and information overload is the subject of this year’s Princeton Pre-read book, "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World" by Maryanne Wolf: bit.ly/3OcXYP5 “I chose ‘Reader, Come Home’ as this year’s Pre-read because it addresses a question of vital importance to every entering student: Why should we continue to read long, challenging books when artificial intelligence agents can quickly summarize them for us?” President Christopher Eisgruber writes in his foreword to the special Pre-read edition of the book. “Deep, immersive reading is at the heart of a Princeton education,” Eisgruber writes, adding that “today, more than ever, that activity depends upon conscious and energetic commitment. We are most likely to read books fully and well only if we understand why they offer us something distinctive, valuable, and irreplaceable.”

Kennt ihr diesen Kommentar zur PhdG von Claus-Artur Scheier? (Ich kenne Scheiers Tractatus Satzkommentar. Der ist interessant, sofern man bereits im "Tractatus-Universum" schon voll drin ist und die Bezüge zu ANDEREN Kommentaren mitsieht)

If you want to understand the hidden bourgeois impulses of self-styled radicals, read Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

Aeschylus's Oresteia is a supreme work of literature -- a drama that moves from the personal to the political, from domestic horror to theological settlement, from the archaic logic of retribution to civic justice. My review of Richard Jenkyns's book: classicsforall.org.uk/reading-room/b…

I have a lovely cover!

"This groundbreaking study reveals the distinctive impact of apocalyptic ideas about time,evil and power on church and society in the Latin West, c.400–c.1050. Drawing on evidence from late antiquity,the Frankish kingdoms,Anglo-Saxon England, Spain and Byzantium..." (2014,274 s.)

This is a fascinating account of the reception in England of: —Zoroastrianism —Egyptian religions and the impact upon Biblical interpretation —The “atoms” of Lucretius and early Modem theories of “matter” —The first histories of “natural science” separated from “metaphysics”

Publication day. The complete 3‑volume Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers is now out from @OUPAcademic. The volumes contain hundreds of texts, the majority in English for the first time, and some never published before in any form. For anyone interested in early modern philosophy.

This article from History of Humanities focuses on the contributions of Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Reigl to art history and argues that they represent two very different epistemological cultures. Read it here: ow.ly/NinG50YQ4RH.

@notwilliam_ This was published in 1991 and is in no way “complete.” The Switch 2 is simply better.

guess what gamers: you too can buy the complete Oxford English Dictionary for less than the price of a Switch 2 and have as many hours of fun with an infinitely more hilarious object 👍 i could stare through the included magnifying glass like "uhhhhhhm uuuuuuhhhhhhhhh" all night!

Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought ed. Todd Lawson. I.B. Tauris. 2005 PDF 🎯 on editor's page toddlawson.ca/pdf/lawson_rea… toddlawson.ca/publications/

“The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind” Jeremy Adelman press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

📣 @AntiquityJ is flipping to #openaccess for research content! ✅ All research content published in the journal from January 2027 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌍. 🔗 cup.org/41P8tLU #archaeology #SAA2026SFO

Can't think of a better title for Spinoza and for the experience of thinking his thought through