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![[title:] Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg: edited, with introduction, bibliography notes, glossary, and appendices [editor:] Fr. Klaeber [book info:] Third edition with first and second supplements [publisher:] D.C. Heath and Company Lexington, Massachusetts [Book is "Old English", or anglo-saxon. This was an undergraduate book from years&years ago, "independent study" translating the whole thing; sadly, at some point over the years I got careless & part of the book itself got mold, & I keep it in a bag until I figure out how to fix that or lose my sentimentality over it & toss it.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreifdape4hh4epdk24ik4pwmqn3c4gqbq4gfhdwdhbomeor6x3jegqy)
![[Page opposite the title page. Picture of old manuscript of Beowulf text in "anglo-saxon" or "old english". Once upon a time I translated that.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreigumjab7444obqi7yfyej6qkc7vjbk3z3gj3euse6bzfyqqt45nmu)
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![[Title:] Against The Fascist Creep [author:] Alexander Reid Ross [2017 book. Cover illustration by N.O. Bonzo. Someone holding a dagger surrounded by plantlife. In other hand holding a severed head by hair with nazi symbol on collar. Head is being held over a bowl which sits on a pedestal. Skulls in corner with symbols on them. Large snake on right.] [from back cover: "...fascism in all its white nationalist and 'alt-right' permutations is alive and well in the United States. A terrifying tour of the history and influence of the forces that helped bring the 45th president to power, Against The Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names. It traces today's often-disguised forms of right-wing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both mainstream and the new social movements of the left."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreiabq3k5plgvwrbjuwmtxkoc2rmy5arvg2w5gcidn7v6pxyrrxngt4)
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![[title:] Paraconsistent Logic Essays on the Inconsistent [Editors:] Graham Priest, Richard Routley, Jean Norman [middle of page is "Contributors" over 2 columns of names, I give only the last names:] Arruda, Asenjo, Batens, Brady, Bunder, da Costa, Giambrone, Goldstein, Jennings, Kotas, Meyer, Morensen, Norman, Pema, Plumwood, Priest, Quesada, Routley, Schotch, Slaney, Vakarelov [bottom is the word "Philosophia", which is probably part of the name of the publisher] [This is the title page, not the cover of the book. This is my paper copy of book so I don't have the cover. 1989 book, for me, was a kind of introduction to paraconsistent logics and it fascinated me at the time as an odd thing. Still fascinated decades later these logics make more sense. Ok, slow. But, whatever. Step back: inconsistencies and contradictions are troubles for most everyone in life, and really get us to begin wondering about how to go about trying to think better.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreieoghvrfgq6wc7hjd4w6ah4oghl4lxthlhf2lkpfucjyfgydufwiu)
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![[title] Being Amoral: psychopathy and moral incapacity [editor] edited by Thomas Schramme [There are four silhouettes, shades of black with one blue/green, the two on the left appear to be different people, the two on the right seem to double a single person; other than that it's unclear what's going on in the picture, so imagine.] [2014 book with 13 contributors, 12 papers/sections; and from inside front flap: "...philosophers will be better equipped to determine what they mean by 'the moral point of view' when they connect debates in moral philosophy to the psychiatric notion of psychopathy, which provides some guidance on what humans need in order [to] be able to feel the normative pull of morality. And the empirical work done by psychiatrists and researchers in psychopathy can benefit from the conceptual clarifications offered by philosophy."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreieeyxcgjthoaeto5gg4wcworkyllp4cvz2244p2epz3vmkk6tgioi)
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![[upper left corner, price tag from a library book sale] [title in middle on ribbons around a heart:] The Kindness of Strangers [words top of book: of fate & fortune on the road including original stories by Jan Morris, Tim Cahill, Simon Winchester, & Dave Eggers] [A circle contains: winner 2004 independent publishers book awards] [text across the bottom: a wonderful idea beautifully realized. I enjoyed it immensely. -- Bill Bryson. Preface by hisholiness the dalai lama. Edited by Don George.] [Cover illustration by Daniel New] [From the Introduction:] "In [25] years of wandering the world, I have learned two things: the first is that when you travel, at some point you will find yourself in a dire predicament --- ... The second is that someone will miraculously emerge to take care of you --- . . . This book is meant to bridge those rifts [e.g., ignorance, greed, divisiveness, despair, distrust, stereotypes, threats, fearful specters, so on], to remind us that we are all members of one grand, globe-encircling family...The Kindness of Strangers began as a simple collection of travelers' tales around a common theme. But as it has come together, it has cohered into something more: a palpable parable of how we are all intricately interconnected on life's journey, every day, everywhere. ... The kindness of strangers is ours to give and to take; we shape the world with each embrace."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreigeddsv2ocr5zgboe3twke7asixrvwv5lhwv24gkqneylzsr3raze)
Bizarre indeed: www.rawstory.com/hawaii-supre...
'Sees only white': Hawaii Supreme Court burns down John Roberts for 'naked racism'
Hawaii's highest Court launched a rare attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, accusing the John Roberts-led bench of enabling "naked racism" and bending the Constitution to "whatever the Court needs it to ...
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![[series title:] A Wisdom Advanced Book Blue Series. [book title:] Compassion: a Tibetan Analysis: A Buddhist Monastic Textbook. [author:] Guy Newland. [Cover: "Avalokiteshvara, the embodiment of compassion. From a painting by contemporary [1984 book] Tibetan artist, A-la Rig-ta." Also from front cover flap: Newland translated Ornament Adorning the Throats of the Fortunate by Jay-dzun ChΓΆ-gyi Gyel-tsen...its subject--the development of compassion as expounded by ...Chandrakirti, and elucidated by Dzong-ka-ba ... is dealt with in the highly technical language of debate...Newland has expertly extracted ... major ideas and presented them so that they are comprehensible, relevant and accessible." Content is wonderful, but fleetingly frustrated by absence of explicit summarizing compressed definition of "compassion". Don't think that matters in the long run.] [Fascinating book fact: though bought in some used bookstore, it was originally a gift to author's parents, & penned on title page the author handwrote "To Mom + Pop, Thanks, Love Guy".]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreiffs3nizh6ofm4da2kdqqtgbxivnla5okz7dhfizeooldy6mquwxe)
No matter who is in the White House, our courts should have access to the best available science. Political leaders can debate policy, but the judiciary should be able to evaluate evidence without scientific resources becoming another political battleground!
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![Unto Others: the evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior. [authors:] Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson. [Picture of face in hood, closing eyes, tear on cheek, nothing other than shape of body, a small figure of bald person on top of a ladder reaching to dab tear maybe.] ["In this book, we will thoroughly explore the concepts of altruism and selfishness in evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy...our argument builds a strong case for both evolutionary and psychological altruism..." A 1998 book.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreihlttqseifowysytxik6igjbja6iwek46dtjg4tg52k2y3a45avbu)
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![Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis: Ten Studies. [author:] David Wiggins. [At the top is publisher: Oxford.] ["Analysis" here is not mathy, but alludes to conceptual analysis and elucidation, from and for philosophical viewpoints. imo especially wrt truth: there are marks, components, of truth, dependent on inquiry. "We cannot leave it to chance whether what we believe is true." "...the idea of truth is something we grasp by being gradually drawn into the whole set of practices, practices that culminate in speaking, understanding, and thinking--and in trying to get something right."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreiddhcxalecqi4fztkjh66wbmb2zzqterfss57xpe2qnvnzfhejlr4)
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![[title:] Confronting Managerialism: how the business elite and their schools threw our lives out of balance. [authors] Robert R. Locke & J.-C. Spender. [series title at top: Economic Controversies. upper right corner is "Z" within a circle, probably publisher's logo, Zed Books. Cover designed by www.alice-marwick.co.uk. The picture of a blankfaced person in a dark suit & tie, white shirt, smoking a cigar (imo an insult to tobacco), and where the eyes should be are money signs. Where the face should be is only maga-red (ok anachronistic & too narrow since it's 2011 book, but u get the point). [One theme, from Preface:] The balance "...was disturbed by the obsessive preoccupation with numbers that followed the development of the 'new paradigm' in business school curricula after" WW2. [& from back cover, the book] "...shows how business managers, once well regarded as custodians of the economic engine driving growth and social progress, now seem more like the rapacious 'robber barons' of the 1880s....an elite cast of business [people] disconnected from any ethical considerations now call the shots, throwing the lives of the rest of us out of balance".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreihjvg33vruhcoaudcij6tvtoxy6uqutlcan5u65ubrrqyxonpvfm4)
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![[title] The Book of Embraces [author] Eduardo Galeano [top red space: winner of the lannan prize for cultural freedom. Beneath author name: author of Memory of Fire. Below that: translated by Cedric Belfrage.] [Cover design Beth Tondreau Design; Cover photograph by Marcelo Isarrualde of handmade birds from the island of Solentiname.] [Images throughout the book drawn by Galeano. A birthday gift from my best friend of long ago, reminding me "recordar: to remember; from the latin re-cordis to pass back through the heart", "the world...is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames", that "the wind whistles within me...master of nothing, master of no one, not even master of my own convictions, I am my face in the wind, against the wind, and I am the wind that strikes my face".]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreifxuq5vdabykhbl24yzj3swn4vjraeoda3dtqpodbhfnrcvts2ile)
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![Interpretation and overinterpretation: with Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler and Christine Brooke-Rose.[right column author of main text: Umberto Eco] Edited by Stefan Collini. [in the blue and black, picture of Eco smoking a cig looking at his name] "...the difference between sane interpretation and paranoiac interpretation lies in recognizing that this relationship [e.g., analogy, contiguity, or similarity, to everything else, pick one] is minimal, and not, on the contrary, deducing from this minimal relationship the maxiumum possible." "The word dog is not similar to a dog." "The overestimation of the importance of clues is often born of a propensity to consider the most immediately apparent elements as significant, whereas the very fact that they are apparent should allow us to recognize that they are explicable in much more economical terms." E.g., doctor notices liver cirrhosis in pts who drink whisky&soda, cognac&soda, gin&soda, screws up by interpreting then thinking soda causes cirrhosis. It's just easier to notice the presence of water and overinterpret, underinterpret, extra interpret, then deduce induce abduce whatever etc..](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreie2qfposstw56vjbfa4rkf5clszlrx76ejglw57xmbhsdx2wbryom)
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![The Soul of the Indian [author:] Eastman. [The full title is The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation. It's by Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa). Originally published around 1911. Of course, "Indian" does not refer to India, but, relative to Eastman, Indigenous NorthAmerica. Read this when I was very young, this very book. One of those books that kickstarted part of mind. And it was even before I heard the story of how Dr. Eastman helped to birth my great uncle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreichmdzepsrtnndgpmbext66euvs4hfdf7okslujrplzcljja2xffa)
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![[title] Healing the Soul Wound: counseling with American Indians and Other Native Peoples [author] Eduardo Duran [series title] Multicultural Foundations of Psychology and Counseling Series, Edited by Allen E. Ivey and Derald Wing Sue. There's a rectangle left corner with water,dirt, or sand (u pick) and a circle of dots with intersecting vertical and horizontal lines, i.e., 4 directions etc. Background of cover is probable bonedry river bed, or whatever (u pick). The 4 direction circle is repeated with shadow dots. From the Introduction: "This work is motivated by a quest for a healing process that includes the healer....Healers who are part of the Traditional system of healing in Original communities do not pretend that they are beyond the frailties of being human...." Better thinking allround.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreiat2qc7ke3i23hpdqtujzl42frihpblp3nduead6q23b7nxopqsuu)
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![[title] indigenous quotient stalking words: American Indian Heritage as Future [author] Juan GΓ³mez-QuiΓ±ones [Cover Art: Memories (detail) Malaquias Montoya. There is one page on the art and artist. The detail from a triptych 1992 re Columbus arrival; on top of triptych is Galeano quote "My memory will retain what is worthwhile. My memory knows more about me than I do; it doesn't lose what deserves to be saved".] [From 1st essay, "American Indian ancestries and heritages ought to be integral to K-12 curriculums and university explorations and graduate expositions...The Indigenous voice matters, yesterday and today, in substantive pedagogical and philosophical discourses". "[Indigenous] life-affirming narratives and interpretive claims are far different from those that have shaped them as 'others' in the narratives of domination yesterday, and of appropriation today."] You encounter colonization, domination, deception, murder, etc., your memory, & make you wish, among other things, there was more critical thinking everywhere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreiap77tvuwmupuppqvigcsuzhq2xlwjkoav4jxbzy2fsgz5bczn7oe)
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![[upper right corner full title] Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race [author] Charles W. Mills [half title in shade of black, "Black" with "ness" below, behind white "Visible"] From Preface, "These essays represent my exploration of the possibilities generated when race is taken seriously in some of the standard areas of the field: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, applied ethics, social and political philosophy. With one exception, all were written within the span of four years and show the development of my thinking." And thinking critically, understanding, clarifying are some tools on the ways to solutions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreicysioisqgvzqpharjpdhp2ojs4siaip6umzfwscg7rraad3ty74m)
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![[title] Fear of Black Consciousness [author] Lewis R. Gordon [from the dust jacket flaps] "...Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates. He illuminates the different forms of invisibility that define black life, and he exposes the bad faith at the heart of many discussions about race and racism, not only in North America but also across the globe, including in countries where disucssants regard themselves as 'colorblind'. Gordon reveals that these lies about race and its supposed irrelevance confer upon many white people an inherited sense of being extraordinary. More than being privileged or entitled, they act with a license to do as they please. But for many if not most blacks, living an ordinary life in a white-dominated society is an extraordinary achievement." And for others. The challenge calls for better thinking, critically, among strategies & tactics.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreid452rliydhl6nxiv6c452n7j3ag6j3rado2y4wuraqw224wuzokm)
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![[author] Vine Deloria Jr. [title] We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf. [Cover designed by John Nieto called "Plains Observer". The figure supposed to be representative [you know indigenous appear in a wide variety of appearances, but Vine was Standing Rock, so probably etc.] of an indigenous guy colorfully dressed, a single feather, unbraided hair. ] New introduction by Suzan Shown Harjo. [This was published originally 1970, this edition 2007. From back cover: "Written at a time when the traditions of the formerly omnipotent Anglo-Saxon male were crumbling under the pressures of a changing world, Deloria's book interprets racial conflict, inflation, the ecological crisis, and power groups as symptoms rather than causes of the American malaise: 'The glittering generalities and mythologies of American society no longer satisfy the need and desire to belong,' a theory as applicable today as it was in 1970."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreiej2ccyaoaazaticvyaj4bqqijo2cf5ks3a2yhkifzbehb3o6o7nu)
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![Edmund Husserl. Cartesian Meditations: an introduction to Phenomenology. Translated by Dorion Cairns. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. [The subjective, the intersubjective, what it feels like to be you and they them, & everyone's got this, and an uneasy reading for the first books in phenomenology read (and no index). Ever since that first read still harbor uneasiness at what seems obvious and not worth much saying and that overwhelming feeling of missing something profound. Might begin to think might need to develop some critical thinking capacities.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y243snnbr5aopb2qchp3g7ju/bafkreidqiwczmfv6dv5obf5hb4lzqzuwxofusalyaumj5w7eyefyr6i4yq)
