4451moanaJun 11, 20222 min readDao De Jing: The Book of the Way (book review) Lao Tzu if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 220611: this is probably the most academically accurate of the...
4451moanaMar 23, 20221 min read Tao Te Ching (book review) Lao Tzu Victor H. Mair (Translator) 220322: have decided to read various translations i have of this text, not that the renderings are...
4451moanaMar 23, 20222 min readBlind Date: Sex and Philosophy (book review) Anne Dufourmantelle120619: this is fascinating. this will reward future rereads, much as sex rewards repeats, for the author has ranged widely, focused,...
4451moanaJan 25, 20222 min readDeleuze, 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...
4451moanaJan 17, 20222 min readExtinction: A Novel (book review) Thomas Bernhard 220114: having read a few austrian novels, several jelinek, in particular [book:The Piano Teacher|764953], i have general idea that it is...
4451moanaDec 29, 20214 min read2021 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...
4451moanaDec 22, 20219 min readTime Regained (book review) by Marcel Proust 201119: well this is conundrum for though it is not like there are no other books to read, the question is- should i try to read it in...
4451moanaDec 16, 20213 min readDeath's End (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3) 090917: i am definitely in a gr minority (this is new?). for me this 'three body trilogy' has become...
4451moanaDec 16, 20211 min readThe Three-Body Problem (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) 180115: do you like astrophysics? quantum physics? physics?- science at all? or maybe just ‘scientism’...
4451moanaDec 14, 202112 min readMerleau-Ponty's Ontology (book review) M.C. Dillon 190917 this is a much much later addition (four years): decided to read again 260917 well i have read it again. faster, longer sections,...
4451moanaDec 4, 20212 min readThe Walking Man (book review) Jirō Taniguchi 270719 much later later addition: i look at this again, slip back into that meditating calmness, now read more books fiction and non,...
4451moanaNov 22, 20213 min readTime 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 ...
4451moanaNov 22, 20212 min readChildren of the Sea, Volume 1 (book review) Daisuke Igarashi (Children of the Sea, #1) 230915: possibly the most beautiful art i have seen in graphic work. in extensive depiction of the seas, the...
4451moanaNov 20, 20213 min readThe Prospector (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio Carol Marks (Translator) 291212: here is a book that uses no particular structural innovations, that on occasion slips to present tense,...
4451moanaNov 20, 20212 min readDesert (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio C. Dickson (Translator) if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 211120: decided to read this again, decided...
4451moanaNov 17, 20211 min readCarmen (book review) Prosper MériméeGeorge Burnham Ives (Translation) 131218: everything you want in hopeless romantic dysfunctional love. and an opera...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readThe Facts of Winter (book review) Paul Poissel Kakyoung Lee (Illustrator), Paul La Farge (Translator) 050719: there is an interesting point about how literal translation of the title...
4451moanaNov 16, 20215 min readKant (book review) Paul GuyerThe Routledge Philosophers 071018 this is a much later addition (6 years): i have not revisited this book, just read the review again. it...
4451moanaNov 16, 20213 min readNietzsche 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...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readAutoportrait (book review) Édouard Levé Lorin Stein (Translator) 200728: brutal, benign, bewildering, beautiful (now i have to read 'wittgenstein's mistress'...). as mentioned...