The Commonplace Book of Joshva Hvmphreys: Volume IV

The exclusive privilege of members of The New Cavalier Reading Society, Volume IV of The Commonplace Book of Joshua Humphreys contains 15 months of reading notes—1700 quotations from 450 separate authors on 315 different subjects, including:Ruskin’s Two Paths, Brave New World Revisited, White Elephants, Hokusai’s Li Bo, Spengler’s Faustian Cathedrals, Ezra Pound, The Forest Rebel, Thai Cremation Books, Lost Japan & Bangkok Found, Burmese Sacrifices, a 4000-year-old griffin, Bob Dylan on Rock & Roll, Lai Thai designs, Freedom and its Betrayal, What the Buddha Taught, Scruton’s Conservatism, God and the Atom, The Denial of Death, The Birth of Tragedy, Michelangelo’s Dream, Edith Hamilton’s Greek Way, The Ship of Theseus, Gilbert Murray on Greek Religion, Nietzsche’s Pre-Platonic Philosophers, The Founding Fathers at Home, The Anatomy of Restlessness, Burckhardt’s Greeks & Greek Culture, Slavoj Žižek on freedom, Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, Chiron and Wisdom & Strength, Pope’s Iliad, ‘Plato to Nato’, Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism, a prayer to elephants—and their human wet nurses, Ted Kaczynski, Siva Nataraja, Malraux’s Anti-memoirs, Ayn Rand in Playboy, Alan Watts and fools, Vietnamese Scroll Seals, Oscar Wilde’s Soul of Man, Thomas Wolfe on Loneliness, Tintoretto’s only peacock, Adorno & Horkheimer and The Culture Industry, The Devil’s Dictionary, Euripides and Free Speech, Diogenes on Exile, Tolstoy on Government, Achilles and Fate, Nietzsche and Socialism, The Illusion of Explanatory Depth, Theognis on Hubris, Plato and the Gods, The Old Oligarch,Bertrand Russell in China, Gad Saad and The Parasitic Mind, Werner Jaeger on Aeschylus, South Park’s Mohammed, The Scorpion & the Frog, Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor, de Tocqueville and Individuality, Simone Weil’s Need for Roots,Madison’s 10th Federalist, Sophocles and Hope, Ruskin’s Athena, and Homer on Death.