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Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
by Adam Kirsch
Jan. 16, 2018 - Jan. 19, 2018 (read/literary-criticism/david-foster-wallace/essay-collections)

Kirsch, A. (2014). Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas. W. W. Norton Company.


W. W. Norton Company, 2014. 320 pages. Hardcover. 9780393243468

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p.192
apotheosis »
the highest point in the development of something…
p.171
parochial »
relating to a church parish; having a limited or …
p.125
antinomian »
(noun) one who rejects a socially established mor…
p.52
arche »
beginning
p.71
a Europe that is affluent and tolerant
Three more different writers could hardly be inve…
p.68
growing soft in its prosperity
When Fukuyama published his book, in 1992, he was…
p.14
to perpetuate the self
[...] Caring about our group can be considered a …

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Preface

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Francis Fukuyama and the Beginning of History

The End of History and the Last Man as a title comes from both Hegel (first part) and Nietzsche (last part), thus why he insists history cannot be understood in purely materialist terms (ideas trump interests etc)

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Francis Fukuyama and the Beginning of History

The End of History and the Last Man as a title comes from both Hegel (first part) and Nietzsche (last part), thus why he insists history cannot be understood in purely materialist terms (ideas trump interests etc)

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