Weekly Readings #162 (03/10/25-03/16/25) - by John Pistelli
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temperament, sensibility, intuition
A weekly newsletter on what I’ve written, read, and otherwise enjoyed. This week I posted “A Free Man” to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The episode is about Heinrich von Kleist and his novella Michael Kohlhaas and their anticipation of modernism with its series of pessimistic “K” creators and “K” characters, from Kafka and Josef K. through [K]oetzee and Michael K, all created by Kleist’s own Krisis of Kultur upon consulting Kant; Kant plunged him into the state of epistemic nihilism and radicalism in which we still live, however we try,…
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