The Bookshelf
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991)
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This post was written in 2015, but not posted then. Over the past twelve months I have read a number of books about Greece and Greek philoso...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
John Boardman et al, The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (2001)
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I divert my course of reading in a manner not planned. Rebecca Goldstein's (see prior post ) argument that Plato remains relevant has p...
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away (2014)
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I can recall a classroom discussion decades ago about the function of literary criticism: was it a formal evaluation of the literary text o...
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Svante Paabo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (2014)
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If the prospect of future climate change poses difficult problems for estimating the impact on the extinction of species (see previous post ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
William Nordhaus, The Climate Casino (2013)
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As previous posts both adumbrate and expose, the human brain does not always successfully sort fact from fiction, but most of the time it do...
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
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Another rereading of a great novel decades later. Albert Camus' plague is a metaphor for everything that the human conscience is typi...
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