Rainbow

Philosophy and Poetry

'As soon as Wittgenstein discovered philosophy, it became a matter of life and death for him. Anyone who felt it as less than this he viewed with contempt.'

(Strathern 2012)

Philosophy

Areas of Interest

• Metaethics (mainly non-cognitivist theories like emotivism or error theory. I also have an interest in normative ethics, mainly utilitarianism and deontology)

• Philosophy of mind (free will and mind–body problem)

• Philosophy of atheism (especially the problem of natural evil)

• Political philosophy (Machiavelli and I want to study Hobbes)

• Philosophy of truth

• Egoism (both ethical & psychological egoism. Mainly interested in Max Stirner but I want to learn about Ayn Rand and Yang Zhu)

• Postmodernism (Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition) in particular but also Foucault

• Post-structuralism (mainly Foucault but might study Derrida)

• Moral status of non-human animals (veganism, animal rights, etc)

• Ancient Chinese philosophy (To a lesser extent ancient Indian philosophy as well)

• Empiricism

Key Philosophers (No Order)

• Max Stirner

• Michel Foucault

• A. J. Ayer

• Ludwig Wittgenstein (mainly because of his influence on Logical Positivism)

• David Hume

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Michel Foucault

• Jean-François Lyotard

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Ferdinand de Saussure (does he count?)

Literature

Areas of Interest

• Male homosexual poetry

• Nature poetry (such as John Clare)

• Metaphysical poetry (especially John Donne)

• Early modern poetry (John Donne, Richard Barnfield, etc)

• Literary theory in general (Foucault's essay What is an Author is super interesting)

• Philosophy expressed through literature (such as Iago from Othello as the embodiment of Machiavellian philosophy)

Key Authors (No Order)

• John Donne

• John Clare

• Richard Barnfield

• Wilfred Owen

• Siegfried Sassoon

• E. M. Forster

• Philippe Besson

Texts

Essays

• The Death of the Metanarrative in Context of Communism and Islam (2026)

• Aśoka's Relationship with the Indian and Western Secular Definition (2026)

• Populism as a Non-Threat (2025)

• Objective Morality as a Legal Danger to Homosexuality (2025)

• On Free Will (2025)

• Emotivism (2025)

• Shakespeare - A Short Prosopography (2024)

Notes and Book Reviews

• Foucault and Queer Theory by Tasmin Spargo (2025)

• A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton (2025)

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