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Disillusioned toward novel modernity, I prefer reading more deeply the remnants of our intellectual lineage. We have lost so much. I found this on HN yesterday
by inphovore 5y ago
Disillusioned toward novel modernity, I prefer reading more deeply the remnants of our intellectual lineage. We have lost so much.
I found this on HN yesterday, a curated list of scattered esoteric topics:
https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html
- graderjs 5y agoGreat! I share your feeling: sometimes we just got to get out of this contemporary age and take refuge in some kind of classics. Refreshing :)
- billfruit 5y agoIt does not seem that curated, seems it is sorted by most downloads. I have had better luck looking up reading lists of people from the past like of Gandhi, Tolstoy, Anthony Burgess etc.
- 3dm4r 5y agoWhile I was reading "How to read" by Mortimer Adler I discovered this list called "Great Books of the Western World": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor... It sounds like something you would like to try.