Library – Modern – Page 9

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Arendt, Men in Dark Times

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 6, 1968
Post category:Library - Modern

Giovanni Paolo Panini’s Capriccio with Roman Ruins and Figures, 1735, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Leo Strauss Liberalism Ancient and Modern

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:May 28, 1968
Post category:Library - Modern

Grevel, Jan-Heiner. "A Sense of Place in Emptiness: Ad Reinhardt’s ‘small black cross painting.’"

Merton, Thomas Faith and Violence (1968)

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:May 25, 1968
Post category:Library - Modern

"Violence rests on the assumption that the enemy and I are entirely different: the enemy is evil and I am good. The enemy must be destroyed but I must be saved. But love sees things differently. It sees that even the enemy suffers from the same sorrows and limitations that I do."

Sesshū Tōyō’s Haboku Sansui (Splashed-Ink Landscape) (1495)

Merton, Thomas Zen and the Birds of Appetite (1968)

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:May 25, 1968
Post category:Library - Modern

"Words are like fingers pointing at the moon. If you stare at the finger, you miss all the heavenly glory."

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Habermas, Jurgen Knowledge and Human Interests

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 16, 1968
Post category:Library - Modern

"The world fashioned by the mass media is a public sphere in appearance only... The public sphere becomes the court before which public relations faces are displayed—a court before which a public opinion is manufactured rather than formed."

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563, Oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Leo Strauss Socrates and Aristophanes

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:May 28, 1966
Post category:Library - Modern

Wu Zhen’s Stalk of Bamboo (c. 1350)

Merton, Thomas The Way of Chuang Tzu (1965)

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:May 25, 1965
Post category:Library - Modern

"The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations."

Francisco Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (c. 1799)

Ricoeur, De l’interpretation. Essai sur Freud Freud and Philosophy: And Essay on Interpretation

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 16, 1965
Post category:Library - Modern

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Allegory of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and the Country, 1338–1339, Fresco, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.

Leo Strauss City and Man

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:May 28, 1964
Post category:Library - Modern

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica

Merton, Thomas Seeds of Destruction (1964)

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:May 25, 1964
Post category:Library - Modern

"We are responsible for the world we live in, not just because we are its inhabitants, but because we are its creators. Every act of injustice, every word of hatred, every silence in the face of wrong, adds a seed to the destruction that we all fear."