Contender, from Kevin Power
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He also published Tosnú na feallsúnachta (The Beginning of Philosophy, 1935) on the pre-Socratics; ‘Prométheus fé chuibhreach’ (1933), trans. of Aeschylus’ ‘Prometheus Bound’, and parts of Herodotus in Irish in early issues of ‘An Phoblacht’ as ‘An seana-shaol Gréagach’ (The Ancient Greek Life).

He later applied for a job at the Nat'l Uni in Galway, astounded his interview panel by conversing in fluent Blasket Irish & lectured there (thru Irish) on ancient Greek philosophy & literature for years. His books like ‘Aeschylus and Athens’ and ‘The First Philosophers’ are still well regarded

Seoirse Mac Laghmhainn is a pen-name of Seoirse mac Tomáis (the name he regularly wrote in Irish under) or George Thomson – a distinguished English classicist who visited the Blasket Islands, and became so enamoured of life on the islands that he acquired total fluency in the Irish spoken there.

Seoirse Mac Laghmhainn is a pen-name of Seoirse mac Tomáis (the name he regularly wrote in Irish under) or George Thomson – a distinguished English classicist who visited the Blasket Islands, and became so enamoured of life on the islands that he acquired total fluency in the Irish spoken there.

Strange, I was checking just last week if he'd died - an upcoming book auction in Purcells Tullamore lists items from his personal library; usually happens on death www.purcellauctioneers.ie/catalogue/4a...

Albrecht Koschorke's little book on the poetics of Mein Kampf, who it spoke to and how, captures exactly this motive for immersion in fantastical rhetoric one knows is false drb.ie/articles/lit...

Yes, the transitional phase (what Weberians would call the "carrier") is neoliberalism. drb.ie/articles/the...

When Keynes worked in the India Office, days started at 11am, & he had ample time to advance his work on probability. "I have not averaged an hour’s office work a day this week so that I am well up to date with the dissertation.”

Could definitely imagine a paper written that way to facilitate blind peer review, with delays so long to acceptance & publication that an author's almost lost interest in the paper & couldn't be bothered revising it.

Strauss called himself ('merely') a scholar & reserved 'thinker' for a tiny cohort. Held Husserl, Heidegger, Bergson & Whitehead were the 20C. major philosophers. His friend Jacob Klein once said there had been 12 philosophers ever - 7 Greeks & 5 Germans. Can only speculate on who made the cut!

Yes, life spanned most of 11C., active in Egypt mostly, he compiled a book of aphorism and sayings attributed to ancient philosophers. And apparently a brief Plato bio: