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Maxzor

maxzor@books.maxzor.eu

Joined 1 year, 9 months ago

Hello, I am experimenting with running a micro bookwyrm instance, to journal the books that I read.

I live in France near Paris, and work as an IT guy for IPCC. I read rather slowly, mostly in French, essays and novels, sometimes poetry or comics. I have this setup where I read french books and review them here in English.

I am moving from a taste in politics towards a growing interest in philosophy, science remains a constant. Also Maxzor on Mastodon.

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finished reading Si Einstein avait su by Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect: Si Einstein avait su (Paperback, Français language, Odile Jacob)

Alain Aspect a voulu écrire ce livre pour nous faire partager sa fascination pour le …

There is a clear didactic effort and the journey is enjoyable, but in my opinion it did not deliver remarquably in making me understand the nature of quantum entanglement, the ingeniosity in Bell's inequalities, nor the consequences of their violation for the advancement of non-locality.

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Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer: La dialectique de la raison (French language, 1983, Gallimard)

Dialectic of Enlightenment (German: Dialektik der Aufklärung) is a work of philosophy and social criticism …

Convincing but too broad

The main message, that reason is a tool and can be used for evil purposes, is abudantly clear. The fine-grained developments on sacrifice, paranoïa... are covering so much ground that I cannot be sure that the reasonings are correct, whatsmore with the immense erudition needed to grasp all the references.

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