Thomas Yaeger's Blog

A radical exploration of the ancient origins of philosophical thought. Much of the evidence for the long history of philosophy never features in the modern academic curriculum. My books are available from major retailers, including Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and also direct from Smashwords. Not available from Amazon.

Tuesday, 27 April 2021

A Timeline of Texts

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My intellectual history is quite complicated. I wrote half a million words between 1986 and 1989, very little of which is currently availa...
Sunday, 25 April 2021

The Tedium of Immortality

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Episode nine in the BBC R4 series (2016) 'A History of the Infinite' by the philosopher Adrian Moore) begins with a scene from the o...
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Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Calculus and the Infinitesimals: 'The Ghosts of Departed Quantities'

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  In this  episode of Adrian Moore's 'A History of Infinity' (BBC R4, 2016), the subject is the nature and development of the ca...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021

A Sense of Divinity - Descartes and Kant

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The fourth programme of Adrian Moore's 'A History of the Infinite' (BBC R4, 2016) discusses the views of Rene Descartes in the s...
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Thomas Yaeger
Thomas Yaeger studied Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages at both University College, London, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Yaeger specialized in the text corpus of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He is the author of five books: the first is 'The Sacred History of Being' (2015), the second is 'J.G. Frazer and the Platonic Theory of Being' (2016). His third and fourth books - 'Understanding Ancient Thought' (2017) and 'Man and the Divine' (2018), explore further patterns of thought in antiquity. His fifth book is Echoes of Eternity’ (2020). Yaeger tweets regularly on ancient history and philosophy, with the Twitter ID: @rotorvator. His books are available (in eBook format) from Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Blio, Walmart, Smashwords, and other retailers.
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