Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton: https://amzn.to/2XfPD1x ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYx56R2s228

The 1917 Revolution gave birth to both the reality and the myth of the Bolsheviks and the democratic left. The social democrats rejected the violence which was part of the communist party. They claimed to follow a democratic path to socialism. They turned Marx into a wise man that should not be taken too literally. A coalition against fascists arose. Social democrats made common cause with the communists. There is reason to suspect that Stalin knew what he was doing bringing Hitler to power. Since the 1930s the enemy of the left has been fascism. The social democrats successfully split from the communists. The end of the cold war looks like the end of WWII. The left won the cold war. The right disappeared.

Allan Bloom delivered this series of lectures at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. Lecture 1 - Socrates: 00:00 Lecture 2 - Aristotle (fragment): 02:58:05 Lecture 3 - Machiavelli: 03:36:49 Lecture 4 - Nietzsche: 07:21:31 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x1YMfb7ih8

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: https://amzn.to/2LT0Q2W The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought by Christopher Gill: https://amzn.to/2YFZAlf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyp0OqvMY1g