Paul Krause (@krausistopheles)

Talking about Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy and the political reality of conflict and why conflict is good for society. #books #BookTok #book #philosophy #politics

Good man vs Good citizen and the problem of virtue in Aristotle’s Politics. #books #BookTok #book #philosophy #aristotle

Books I’m currently teaching: Dante’s Divine Comedy; Goethe’s Faust; Miguel Cervantes’s Don Quixote; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. #books #BookTok #book #literature #teaching

Nietzsche on the idolatry of the State in the modern world from Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche explains how passive nihilism leads to our want for the state to solve our problems. #books #BookTok #book #philosophy #politics

Fruedrich Nietzsche and his critique of happiness but his ironic insight into the meaning of life through this futile pursuit of happiness. #books #BookTok #book #philosophy #nietzsche

Plato’s allegory of the cave is a political allegory about tyranny, not an allegory of his theory of the forms. #books #BookTok #book #philosophy #plato

Irony and satire in Plato’s Republic, looking at Socrates and Thrasymachus and Socrates vs. Glaucon. #books #BookTok #book #philosophy #plato

Dante and Beatrice, the greatest love story that never was. #books #BookTok #book #romance

Talking about Sir Thomas More and his book, Utopia. In exploring Utopia, Aristotle is a key to understanding the text. #books #BookTok #book #philosophy #aristotle

Talking about the problem of ignorance, wisdom, and happiness in the philosophy of Saint Augustine. #philosophy #augustine

Plato’s Republic and the opening sequence and how it foreshadows the entire dialogue with Socrates. The first page of the dialogue brings up human nature and the dialectic of reason vs power. #book #BookTok #books #philosophy #classicliterature

Talking about Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Purgatorio (Purgatory) and the story of humility in the terrace of the proud. #book #BookTok #books #literature #dante

Talking about the classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a great book in the American tradition of literature. #book #BookTok #books #literature #marktwain

Marx and Kafka, The Communist Manifesto and The Metamorphosis. #book #BookTok #books #literature #philosophy

Character foils in literature. #book #BookTok #books #literature

Liminal spaces in literature. #book #BookTok #books #literature #philosophy

Theo of Golden is exceptional. You should read it! #book #BookTok #books #literature

Talking about comparative literature and the motif of the “monster” in Frankenstein, Faust, and Great Expectations. #book #BookTok #books #literature #classicliterature

Augustine’s appraisal and critique of philosophy in the Confessions. #book #BookTok #books #literature #philosophy

GUILTY! The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of those “high school” reads that is phenomenal when you’re older… #book #BookTok #books #literature #nathanielhawthorne

Talking about the insanity of the mind in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. #book #BookTok #books #literature #dostoevsky

Talking about Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and her at the end of this great book the transformative power of forgiveness emerges. #book #BookTok #books #literature #classicliterature

Giambattista Vico and his defense of art, poetry, and literature and the reality of moral creation in art. #book #BookTok #books #literature #philosophy

My book. Meet some characters. See some stories. SIR BISCUIT BUTTERWORTH. #book #BookTok #books #writer #author

Immanuel Kant’s critique of happiness. #book #BookTok #books #philosophy #kant

Talking about Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan poem, the doomed love of Tristan and Isolde, and the dark side of love’s sorrow. #book #BookTok #books #literature #medieval

Brave New World and John the Savage as the archetype of the ascetic monk and artist. Keep on reading great books and classic literature. #book #BookTok #books #literature #classicliterature

Talking about Xenophon, Socrates, Plato, and philosophy. #book #BookTok #books #philosophy #socrates

The irony of damnation and salvation in Dante’s Divine Comedy. In the Inferno dwell fathers, in Purgatorio dwell sons on the path to heaven. #book #BookTok #books #literature #divinecomedy

My book, The Incredible Adventure of Passer the Sparrow, is a moral fable about environmentalism, family, friendship, and sacrifice. #book #BookTok #books #literature #stories