Archive - Walking Away

The books that made me

Le Guin, of course, but many others.

May 16 •

Jared Henderson

April 2024

Anxiety as Ignorance of the World

Buddhism and Stoicism, plus philosophy as therapy for the soul

Apr 7 •

Jared Henderson

February 2024

Books Worth Your Time, Vol. 3

Mantel, Erasmus, Hegel via Vieweg, etc.

Feb 22 •

Jared Henderson

Tolkien on Myth and Truth

From the letters, part 1

Feb 18 •

Jared Henderson

Aristotle (and Oakeshott) on Friendship

Nicomachean Ethics, 'On being conservative,' the Peripatetics vs. the Stoics

Feb 16 •

Jared Henderson

January 2024

Accept graciously, let go easily.

Meditations, Notebook 8

Jan 4 •

Jared Henderson

Books Worth Your Time, Part 2

Medieval magic, eternal returns, and the old gods of Britain

Jan 4 •

Jared Henderson

November 2023

Disagreement is a sign of respect

Or, at least it can be.

Nov 15, 2023 •

Jared Henderson

The ending of each thing

Meditations, Notebook 8

Nov 2, 2023 •

Jared Henderson

October 2023

Lewis on Reading Old Books

Difficult, old, obscure, texts — and why they are worth it.

Oct 27, 2023 •

Jared Henderson

Books Worth Your Time

Orwell, Critical Theory, Epictetus, etc.

Oct 25, 2023 •

Jared Henderson

July 2023

The Old, Obscure, and Lesser-Known

Gaius Musonius Rufus, my teacher.

Jul 22, 2023 •

Jared Henderson

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