I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.W. E. Henley, Invictus, 1875
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Spines are drawn to scale: the thicker the book, the longer the read.
- Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism Robin Mackay, 2013 Digest, 5 min
- Zen at War Brian Daizen Victoria, 1997 Digest, 6 min
- Meditations Marcus Aurelius, c. 170–180 Full text, 12 chapters, 4 h
- Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton, 1908 Full text, 9 chapters, 5 h
- Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke, 1790 Full text, 7 h
- Past and Present Thomas Carlyle, 1843 Full text, 46 chapters, 7 h
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Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism
Robin Mackay, 2013A former student, later Land's publisher, on the Warwick years: the philosopher who went looking for the outside of philosophy, took his students with him, and did not come back the same.
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Zen at War
Brian Daizen Victoria, 1997How a religion of compassion came to preach that loyalty to the emperor and the taking of life were Zen practice: a priest's history of Japanese Buddhism's road to war.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, c. 170–180Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are the signs and proprieties of a good man, but really and actually to be such.
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Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton, 1908Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke, 1790Society is, indeed, a contract… it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
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Past and Present
Thomas Carlyle, 1843Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.