Ressentiment is not a psychology. It is a composition of time. We have yet to come to terms with its movements.

Essays on Time as Practice
Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass
Iliad, Ressentiment, moral compass, Nietzsche, Eternal Return, mênis
Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass
Iliad, Ressentiment, moral compass, Nietzsche, Eternal Return, mênis

Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.

Iliad, Ressentiment, moral compass, Nietzsche, Eternal Return, mênis
Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses
Nietzsche, Eternal Return, Ressentiment, Zarathustra
Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses
Nietzsche, Eternal Return, Ressentiment, Zarathustra

The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.

Nietzsche, Eternal Return, Ressentiment, Zarathustra
Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra
Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Buddhism, Eternal Return, Ressentiment
Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra
Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Buddhism, Eternal Return, Ressentiment

The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.

Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Buddhism, Eternal Return, Ressentiment
Reading Zarathustra: Prologue
Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Christianity, Eternal Return, Ressentiment
Reading Zarathustra: Prologue
Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Christianity, Eternal Return, Ressentiment

The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.

Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Christianity, Eternal Return, Ressentiment
Aphorisms on the in-Between Part I
Plato, Meno, Socrates, Socratic Ignorance, Zarathustra, Nietzsche, Rousseau, In Between, Ressentiment, Serres
Aphorisms on the in-Between Part I
Plato, Meno, Socrates, Socratic Ignorance, Zarathustra, Nietzsche, Rousseau, In Between, Ressentiment, Serres
Plato, Meno, Socrates, Socratic Ignorance, Zarathustra, Nietzsche, Rousseau, In Between, Ressentiment, Serres

A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time

Time as Practice Reading List
Myth and Thought among the Greeks - Jean-Pierre Vernant
History of Science, Religion and Time
Myth and Thought among the Greeks - Jean-Pierre Vernant
History of Science, Religion and Time

An exceptionally detailed and compelling investigation into the evolution of Greek philosophical thought out of myth.

History of Science, Religion and Time
Powers of Time - David Lapoujade
Historical Consciousness of Time, Philosophy of Time, Practices of Time
Powers of Time - David Lapoujade
Historical Consciousness of Time, Philosophy of Time, Practices of Time

One of the best explanations of Bergson’s thought. Lapoujade connects duration with motion and in the process exposes why Bergson’s thought is more than conceptual philosophy. It is the transformation of how we experience ourselves and the world.

Historical Consciousness of Time, Philosophy of Time, Practices of Time
The Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul - Stanislas Breton
Religion and Time, Historical Consciousness of Time, Practices of Time
The Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul - Stanislas Breton
Religion and Time, Historical Consciousness of Time, Practices of Time

Breton set in motion the philosophical and theological reconsideration of Paul (which was already underway in more scholarly investigations into ‘the historical Paul’). This book is crucial to the reconsideration of Paul that found in his letters the power to suspend the weight of culture to find ‘new horizons’ of salvational experience.

Religion and Time, Historical Consciousness of Time, Practices of Time
The Natural Contract - Michel Serres
Historical Consciousness of Time, History of Science, Philosophy of Time, Science of Time, Religion and Time
The Natural Contract - Michel Serres
Historical Consciousness of Time, History of Science, Philosophy of Time, Science of Time, Religion and Time

Michel Serres at his most political. This 1990 book is a defining work in the modern understanding of the climate crisis. I've written a long essay inspired by the depth and breadth of Serres vision.

Historical Consciousness of Time, History of Science, Philosophy of Time, Science of Time, Religion and Time

Practices of Time in the New Testament

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The Natural Contract - Michel Serres
The Natural Contract - Michel Serres
The Parasite - Michel Serres
The Parasite - Michel Serres
Birth of Physics - Michel Serres
Birth of Physics - Michel Serres
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The Earth in Time
The Earth in Time
Words and Things
Words and Things
Vesuvius: Time as Contingency
Vesuvius: Time as Contingency
At the Edge of le Grand Récit
At the Edge of le Grand Récit
L’Incandescent
L’Incandescent

Chronology

A running list of posts

The Earth in Time
Things as Time Greg Laugero Things as Time Greg Laugero

The Earth in Time

When did the earth begin is a strange question. To trace its answer is to find oneself deeply entangled into the contingency of motions that make up the Grand Narrative of the cosmos.

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