Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Essential Erasmus: Selected and Translated with Introduction and Commentary by John P. Dolan (gift from my good friend Shawn)
📖 Ecohumanism (Volume 15 of Humanism Today) edited by Robert B. Tapp
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
And yet, those with the greatest faith never realise they are NOT part of any group reasonably and logically referred to as “men and women of real conscience.”
#GodIsNotGreat #ChristopherHitchens #conscience #faith #religion #philosophy #humanism
pickThis little book is the translation of a famous speech Sartre gave (Paris, 1946) to further expound on his philosophy. I think it‘s perfect for anyone wanting an explanation of existentialism. I do not agree with this philosophy primarily because I think it underestimates the importance of the situation a person is born into. Nevertheless, it was an interesting read.
pickI was finishing this heavyweight nonfiction title about human enlightenment just as the Israel crisis began. I was feeling like everything in this age was great with the caveat of the ever present racism, social injustices, and on and on…but then.
Pinker makes the case that we‘re living in the best time possible and that humans will only continue to get smarter, better able to deal with death and disease and hopefully live in peace.⬇️
pickI've had Sarah Bakewell's At the Existentialist Cafe on my TBR for some time but got to this one first. I have to agree with the words of one GR review in that it reads like a "standard issue Western civilization college textbook"; the scope of humanism is broad, & Bakewell just goes through the eras & the familiar thinkers of liberalism. There are some great anecdotes, quotes, & nuggets of information, but it felt like a mere recounting of facts.
I read because it keeps me grounded….
My mom and my bumpa were huge readers and I saw that when I was growing up…
I read any chance I get!
#littenswanttoknow
pickWhat a pleasure it was to read these 26 short stories for the first time. Saroyan writes with humor and emotion. He is known for his “free style” of writing, more concerned with conveying an idea, a tone, or an emotion than with the form a story takes.
He may not be as often read today as Steinbeck or Hemingway, but he is a distinct early to mid-20th century American voice who is well worth your time.
Full review: https://bit.ly/rvw-trapeze
"The man you write of need not perform some heroic or monstrous deed in order to make your prose great. Let him do what he has always done, day in and day out, continuing to live. Let him walk and talk and think and sleep and dream and awaken and walk again and talk again and move and be alive. It is enough."
