- Isaac Husik, History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy–to be finished, as I’m already past Maimonides, though, oh! if only he wrote like Copleston–;
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- Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race;
- Frank Manuel, Shapes of Philosophical History–because I like anything that pits St. Augustine and Joachim of Fiore against each other;
- Sylvia Maxfield et al., eds., Business and the State in Developing Countries–in part because of work, though the subject is fascinating–; and if I still have time,
- Brian Herbert, Hunters of Dune–because I need closure,
Albeit with due respect, I cannot but feel that continuing the Dune series was in itself somehow inappropriate; for the animus of a great author qua author is intransmissible, and his greatness is a personal charisma (in Weber’s usage) that is handed on not by lineage but “by the laying on of hands of the presbyterate” (1 Tim. 4:14, following Jewish usage), or by anointing, or by taking on his cloak as he ‘s raised by the merkabah. A disciple can follow the master, perhaps (as Aquinas followed Albert, and as Lenin followed Marx), but never a son the father, and never on the same road. At least Christopher Tolkien only edits.
I’ll resume Husik by tomorrow, as soon as I finish Newman…
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