Working back from Tierney and Oakley; give ground on genealogy of subjective rights, hold line on voluntarism and nominalism. Motivated reasoning! See how it goes

Good question! I'm up to the "fun" Ockham part now though

Dworkin less so, which is reassuring!

Raz Between Authority and Interpretation looks like it has done a few miles

Don’t know of a major or standard treatment. The Kochin article in fn 5 of this review of Owen Bradley’s book follows the Straussian hermeneutic for sure, was published in Polis
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Thanks, will check those out

"New German Cinema" stuff like Fassbinder, early Herzog and Wenders. A lot of it is on you tube with (sometimes dodgy) subtitles. Watching Fassbinder's Welt am Draht too many times helped me a lot, particularly for comprehension

These books are great, I found you can mix up attentive listening and having it on in the background sometimes too. I also swear by 1970s German movies. Somehow the dialogue is easier to follow around A2 level and if you get something you like multiple viewings works wonders

Hard agree. Languages have their own rhythms and modulations etc. so even if you don’t understand the content something significant is lost. So it’s not even that irrational IMO

Sandra Leonie Field’s work is worth a look and prob suited to the level. Recent articles build on Field’s analyses of power in Hobbes and Spinoza (see Potentia, OUP, 2020)

For all the Blumenberg fans out there

Astutely identifying some underlying Calvinism there