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MICHAEL KAMAKANA
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We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that. MichaelKamakana serves as a vessel to project my passions, and clue in my loyal readers as to what inspires me in this crazy world. So, sit back, relax, and read on.
Bergson’s Philosophy of Self-Overcoming (book review) Messay Kebede
Thinking without Negativity or Time as Striving 220225: i should not be surprised that reading this text is challenging, dense,...
Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty (book review) Dorothea E Olkowski
The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception 220124: three of my favourite philosophers, so it is no surprise...
2021 on Goodreads by Various
211227: not quite the end of the year but not likely to read much more. big decision this year was that when i reached an arbitrary...
The Jaina Path of Purification (book review) Padmanabh S. Jaini
211216: very good. perhaps only three. but there are some good chapters, particularly 3- nature of reality, 4-mechanism of bondage, in...
The American Evasion of Philosophy (book review) Cornel West
A Genealogy of Pragmatism 011015: this is exactly what it says, though the evasion is not so much of philosophy but of a type West calls...
The Awakening of Intelligence (book review) Jiddu Krishnamurti
211208: maybe not five because it becomes repetitive. when he is on, he is great. i might prefer [book:Freedom from the Known|143877] as...
Examined Life (book review) Astra Taylor (Editor)
Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers 300916: not always the philosophers i might want to talk to- in many cases dead, in many cases...
The Unicorn (book review) Iris Murdoch
i have not read much gothic(45), so i do not know how it uses gothic structures beyond the obvious: castle, sublime isolation, dangerous...
Analytic Philosophy (book review) Aaron Preston
The History of an Illusion 100818: i do not know if this is a five- let alone on a sort of philosophy i do not much read (analytic) but...
Time and Free Will (book review) Henri Bergson
An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness F.L. Pogson (Translator) 240716 this is a much later later addition: i have now read ...
Kant (book review) Paul Guyer
The Routledge Philosophers 071018 this is a much later addition (6 years): i have not revisited this book, just read the review again. it...
Nietzsche and Philosophy (book review) Gilles Deleuze
yy/mm/dd 200620: i have read some by nz(3) some on nz(11) some by dz(6) some on dz(20), and this is definitely one of the best. this is...
Jaina Theory of Multiple Facets of Reality and Truth (BLII) (book review) Nagin J. Shah
200628: reading second time...note again, the result of opposing thought-systems etc is not median, not synthesis, not relatively, but...
Crystallography (book review) Christian Bök
200710: this five does not mean i understand it all, but as with philosophy i enjoy not understanding. i am not scientific but my father...
What the Buddha Taught (book review) Walpola Rahula
200805: years (decades...) since first reading. this might be first buddhism book i read, very concise, great translations, clear and...
It's a Magical World (book review) Bill Watterson
(Calvin and Hobbes #11) .??? 90s on: this five is for all ‘calvin and hobbes’ collections. it is because i also appreciate this work that...
Here (book review) Richard McGuire (Author/Illustrator)
041019: did not write review at the time, as this is an example of any words being too many words, but on reflection i must explain how...
Groundhog Day (book review) Ryan Gilbey
(BFI Film Classics) ??? 2000s: this is one of my favorite films. this is why. i just read this again today, laughing in recollection....
The Mexican Dream (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio,
, or The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation) ??? 2010s?: interrupted dreams are the ones...
