User:GreenLoeb

About me
My love of encyclopedias goes back to my earliest memories, when I would dig through my grandfather’s 1978 World Book Encyclopedia set for hours every afternoon, from the time I got home from school till supper, and often late into the night, well past my bedtime. I started editing Wikipedia in May of 2019, though I had been lurking and browsing Wikipedia since around 2008, when I was ten years old. My username is a reference to the color of the Greek volumes published by the Loeb Classical Library. I hope to own every volume they publish one day.

I am a graduate student in political theory, an Anglo-Catholic, a twelfth-generation Appalachian, and an ex-Marxist who was so entranced by  After Virtue  that I now would call myself a paleoconservative communitarian. I have a deep interest in marginal and radical political thought, motivated by my longstanding sense that liberalism is a philosophical dead end which degrades the ontological status of the human being. These biographical facts guide a lot of what I edit on here. My own chief intellectual influences are the Hebrew prophets, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, the English metaphysical poets, German idealism, Alexis de Tocqueville, Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, T. S. Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Christopher Lasch, and Giorgio Agamben.

When it comes to the arts, I am a great fan of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Northern Renaissance, Primitivism, the Arts and Crafts movement, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, Gothic revival, Brick Gothic, Brick Expressionism, Art Deco, the WPA style, American vernacular architecture, and American Regionalism. In music, I have basically comprehensive knowledge when it comes to country music, and am also a great fan of American folk, Delta/acoustic blues, ragtime, and bop/post-bop jazz. My favorite poet is R. S. Thomas, and my favorite novels are  Absalom, Absalom!  and  A Canticle for Leibowitz.

I read a lot, and you are welcome to follow me on Goodreads.