Book review of Platos Republic |
I have been thinking a lot about justice in the context of my very limited experience teaching. I have not always made the distinction between being authoritative and being authoritarian. I do feel th...
Posted by John on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:15:00 PST |
Book review of Martha Nussbaums The Therapy of Desire |
Nussbaum's readings of Lucretius' On The Nature Of Things, and her reading of Seneca's Medea are, to my mind, the highlights of the book.In Lucretius, Nussbaum suggests that his exhaustive Epicurean...
Posted by John on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:47:00 PST |
Book review of Catch 22 |
Henry Fonda starred as the unlikely hero of the 1957 film, 12 Angry Men. In that role, Fonda seeks a disinterested justice, much to the annoyance of his fellow jurorsthey grumble, "Now we definitely ...
Posted by John on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:11:00 PST |
Book Review of Diogenes The Cynic; The War Against The World. |
I suggested reading this book with my book club last winter. It didn't make the cut. My friend Jesse asked me how classical Cynicism differed from Existentialism. At the time I had no idea. But, after...
Posted by John on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:03:00 PST |
Book review of Kaufmann's Existentialism From Dostoyevsky to Sartre |
In his introductory essay Kaufmann defends his decision to exclude selections by religous existentialist thinkers (with the exception of Kierkegaard and Jaspers). He writes, "religion has always been...
Posted by John on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:24:00 PST |
Book review of Irrational Man by Barrett |
I recently heard a guest on a NPR interview show say, "It is my belief that any truly serious piece of music really must be something existential." What a thing to say! I laughed really hard, etc. Bar...
Posted by John on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:36:00 PST |
Book Review of Steinbeck's East of Eden |
My dad has tried to read the Catcher in the Rye several times. He always has trouble finishing it. He says that he gets to a point where he feels that it is "just too close" and has to put it down. I...
Posted by John on Tue, 01 May 2007 01:09:00 PST |
Book Review of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer |
George Orwell wrote an essay about this book called, "Inside the Whale." The title alludes to the Jonah story in the bible. In that story Jonah rejected his responsibility, ran, and was swallowed by a...
Posted by John on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:33:00 PST |
Review Aldous Huxley's The Island; A good book for hippies that are pretending to be yuppies. |
My GRE Test Prep book says that qualifying and generally narrowing the scope of your thesis does not in any way undermine the effectiveness of your argument. On the contrary it makes the argument appe...
Posted by John on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:16:00 PST |
