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Eliot is said to have liked this novel best of all her work, and apart from the opening couple of chapters with their stilted faux-Renaissance dialogue I can see why.
▲ 13 r/classicliterature

Eliot is said to have liked this novel best of all her work, and apart from the opening couple of chapters with their stilted faux-Renaissance dialogue I can see why.

It is probably the most tightly plotted of her novels and the character of Tito the sublest and deepest of all her villians. And it doesn't hurt that it's kind of anti-Pater on the Florentine Renaissance, that remarkable moment in the history of the species, no mind what anyone says.

u/ScienceSure — 1 day ago
▲ 9 r/hegel

Does anyone know of anything written on Hegel's reliance on Aristotle's Prior Analytics in the syllogism section of the Science of Logic? This would require someone to suffer through reading both texts, which may reduce the odds that it exists.

I'm trying to account for his idiosyncratic notation mainly. Aristotle presents the syllogisms "backwards" relative to the standard form, so I thought there could be a relationship. According to Ferrin, Hegel was far ahead of the curve in reading Aristotle in the original so I thought there might be a direct influence.

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u/ScienceSure — 7 days ago
▲ 2 r/Indianbooks

Ernest Dowson, Poems and Prose (this ed 1919).

When I was a kid it was still just possible to think of the 1890s poets as glamorous, faintly dangerous, “decadent” as they said of themselves. Dowson who managed to be both a bohemian doomed wild child and a productive journalistic man of letters, was a rather good poet, helped on by his refusal to be intimidated by late romantic kitsch. Nice little book to own.

u/ScienceSure — 7 days ago