To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers. !bookworms
I'm finnishing Never Let Me Go, I haven't read any thing for a couple of weeks even though the book club ended.
I also bought 2 editions of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of the Species 
First I ordered the 6th edition and then the first edition which arrived today and is shown in the pic above. Yes I'm aware Darwin's book is outdated as he had no knowledge of genetics but I bought them as they're still interesting as history of science and to see how much of the original theory still stands, also the cover and illustrations are so pretty.
These pics are from the 6th edition I got, very collectible editions even if they're translations. !historychads
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I'm reading two books, one is the Bible, which I detailed yesterday.
The other one is Dictatorship, by Carl Schmitt. It's pretty dang dense, but a podcast I listen to turned me onto Schmitt's book as he was the legal architect of the Nazi regime. This guy did everything so by the book that the Allies couldn't nail him after the war with anything criminal. Overall, I share pretty much none of the beliefs of Schmitt but I do recognize him as a greater philosopher and researcher on legal topics than I am.
Another thing that makes this guy fascinating is that he was unrepentant in the end in terms of nazism, but at the same time wrote a famous Jewish philosopher (Leo Strauss) his walking papers because he didn't think he should be pogrom'd by the nazis. (Wikipedia has since been heavily edited, and I cannot source too well Strauss's and Schmitt's relationship.)
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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