Tag: book-reviews
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One can be read as a sustained attempt to isolate what “newness” means when it is treated as an object of practical reason rather than as a decorative label for novelty. Its governing problem-space concerns how a finite agent, acting under uncertainty and inside institutions oriented toward repetition, can nonetheless form determinate commitments…
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Philosophical Book Review: Chasing Homer: Good Luck, and Nothing Else: Odysseus’s Cave
This book stages a controlled experiment in narrative pressure and philological memory. László Krasznahorkai compresses a pursuit story into a sequence of conceptual modules—Velocity, Faces, Relating to sheltered places, and so on—whose cumulative claim is that survival, once reduced to method, becomes a cognitive discipline that interrogates its own premises. The distinctive contribution lies in…
Simon Gros 