Billionaire Peter Thiel is as well known for being the cofounder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook as he is for his free thinking. He outlines many of his contrarian views, such as ...

As his title indicates, Melzer deals specifically with esoteric writing in philosophy (and thus not with such subjects as alchemy and various forms of religious mysticism, such as Gnosticism and ...

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Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, by Arthur M. Melzer (University of Chicago Press, 464 pp., $37.93) What do understanding Plato’s Republic, a Dear John Letter, and ...

I’m just getting around to reminding you about the second part of the symposium in Perspectives on Political Science on Arthur Melzer’s Philosophy Between the Lines. It features five great essays.