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user-inactivated · 3688 days ago · link · · parent · post: December Photo Challenge, Day 5 "Library"
Intellectuals is an exercise in ad hominem, of course, but I found it legitimate. Explores the boundary between malicious personal opprobrium and justified criticism for the sake of truth. I also learned rather a lot. But it couldn't exist on the same bookshelf as History of Western Philosophy... -- I read Piketty. That's about all I can say. I'm still not exactly sure why he needed 600 pages. The graphs speak for themselves.