Aurobindo Ghosh, 1872–1950
778 words
Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghosh)
Secret of the Veda
Pondicherry, India: Aurobindo Ashram, 1995
From 1944 to 1946 the periodical Arya—issued in Pondicherry in a limited number of copies and impossible to find anywhere today—published a series of essays by Sri Aurobindo on the secret of the Vedas. Read more …
Strauss on Persecution & the Art of Writing
8,150 words
Leo Strauss, 1899–1973
Author’s Note:
I wrote the following essay in the 1990s while in graduate school. It was not written for a class, but merely to clarify my thinking on how to read philosophical texts in anticipation of writing my doctoral dissertation. Read more …