Define Infinity wrotetraptunderice wroteDefine Infinity wrotetraptunderice wroteI generally hate Cambridge Companions minus the Wittgenstein one.
Why?
8 out of 10 of the essays always just hit me as absurdly abstract and kinda circle jerk-y. I don't know, maybe I just have issues with boring philosophers resulting in boring collections of essays. I did just look up the Adorno set and that sounded kinda sexy, albeit I remember the Frankfurt School set was rather uninteresting.
You consider Kierkegaard, boring?! In any case, I have read a few chapters on the book and as always Cambridge is nothing short of excellence and well structured. Also, the Blackwell companions are excellent as well. But considering Kierkegaard, boring :wacko:?
I didn't call Kierkegaard boring. Over the last two years, I picked up a lot of the Cambridge Companions because they are always the first book to come up on secondary source searches. However, I've never been impressed by any of them. They come off as stuffy and esoteric, which is totally not my style of philosophy. I've never picked up the Kierkegaard one so maybe it is better. I know the Wittgenstein one is good and the Adorno one I googled and it seemed interesting. But the Heidegger, Kant, Descartes, Arendt, Freud, even the Marx one were just uninteresting and boring collections of essays. They provided interesting summaries at times, but never put forth a gripping claim which I want from a secondary source. Maybe it's because they are so general, whatever.
