The Perils of Joyful Reading: A Self-Critique.

The article presents the discussion on exhilarated by a practice of reading to discover friends and sources of inspiration. Topics include idea of studying the history of philosophy from a standpoint of joy, pleasure, and admiration rather than suspicion, distress, and condemnation; and anti-ecological and somatophobic implications of Cartesianism, or excoriating the imperialist and colonial commitments of John Locke.