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Maxzor

maxzor@books.maxzor.eu

Joined 1 year, 8 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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72% complete! Maxzor has read 18 of 25 books.

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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