Breaking Bread with the Dead

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Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women. Kant wrote that ''Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.'' The Founding Fathers declared it ''self-evident'' that all men are created equal, but nevertheless owned slaves. Small wonder that many readers prefer to close the book on the past. Rather than dwell amid the squalor of history, shouldn''t we focus our attention on hopes for a better world?The literary scholar Alan Jacobs hears you. He gets it. But you''re wrong. In a scintillating work that weaves together the Book of Genesis and Thomas Pynchon, the Roman poet Horace and Simone Weil, Jacobs shows how our encounters with the past in all its disturbing strangeness may be our best chance at winning a measure of mental freedom.

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Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women. Kant wrote that 'Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.' The Founding Fathers declared it 'self-evident' that all men are created equal, but nevertheless owned slaves. Small wonder that many readers prefer to close the book on the past. Rather than dwell amid the squalor of history, shouldn't we focus our attention on hopes for a better world?The literary scholar Alan Jacobs hears you. He gets it. But you're wrong. In a scintillating work that weaves together the Book of Genesis and Thomas Pynchon, the Roman poet Horace and Simone Weil, Jacobs shows how our encounters with the past in all its disturbing strangeness may be our best chance at winning a measure of mental freedom.

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Anul publicarii	2020
ISBN	9781788162999
Format coperta	Cartonata
Numar pagini	192
Limba	Englezã
Domeniul	Critica literara
Autor	Alan Jacobs
De aceeasi editura	Profile Books Limited
CM	60941
DS	BR/1#MEGA/2
Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781788162999
Dimensiuni	Height: 8.03148 Inches, Length: 5.43306 Inches, Width: 0.90551 Inches