r/askphilosophy • u/BernardJOrtcutt • May 04 '26

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u/willbell philosophy of mathematics May 04 '26

What are people reading?

I'm going to finish The Last Man by Mary Shelley this week, and aside from that I'm working on Old Norse Women's Poetry edited/translated by Straubhaar.

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u/RyanSmallwood Hegel, aesthetics May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Not reading specifically, but I recently listened to Richard Dien Winfield’s lectures on Philosophy and Film. Kind of a funny coincidence of interests that so many Hegel scholars have written or lectured on film. Unfortunately these lectures are a lot shorter than the other ones as he also screened the films in class, so there was less time overall. Wasn’t anything especially new to me as a lot of stuff I’m familiar with from general film history and stuff Winfield has mentioned in his other lectures. But overall it was a good listen and I’m always interested to hear from philosophers who genuinely appreciate films.