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Breaking Bread with the Dead
Alan Jacobs
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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
A Spectator Book of the Year
It's fashionable to think of the writers of the past as irredeemably tarnished by prejudice. Aristotle despised women. John Milton, the great champion of free speech, wouldn't have granted it to Catholics. Edith Wharton's imaginative sympathies stopped short of her Jewish characters. But what if it is only through the works of such individuals that we can achieve a necessary perspective on the troubles of the present?
Join literary scholar Alan Jacobs for a truly nourishing feast of learning. Discover what Homer can teach us about force, what Machiavelli has to say about reading and what Charlotte Brontë reveals about race. Not all the guests are people you might want to invite into your home, but they all bring something precious to the table. In Breaking Bread with the Dead, an omnivorous reader draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with minds across the ages, from Horace to Donna Haraway.
Rezensionen
Alan Jacobs captures the nervous joy of helping students discover that writers of "the long ago and far away"
Alan Jacobs's <i>Breaking Bread With the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind</i> should be on everyone's reading list in these times of what a friend of mine calls 'disagreement-phobia'
A beautiful case for reading old books as a way to cultivate personal depth in shallow times. <i>Breaking Bread with the Dead</i> is timely and timeless - the perfect ending to the trilogy Alan Jacobs began with <i>The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction</i> and continued with <i>How To Think</i>. I'
Eloquent ... There are moments of great insight here
Alan Jacobs has given us a toolbox stocked with concepts that balance the pop of a self-help book with the depth of a college seminar. <i>Breaking Bread With the Dead</i> is an invitation, but even more than that, an emancipation: from the buzzing prison of the here and now, into the wide-open field of the past.
This elegant book moved me, especially when it led me to rethink time with my mentors and how they taught me, to paraphrase Wordsworth, what to love and how to love. On so many pages, I found things I know I will carry forward.
Jacobs is a proponent of difference and distance as a means of increasing perspective...when we pick up an old book, we know that 'another human being from another world has spoken to us.'
Kundenbewertungen
Antisemitism Eliot Ezra Pound, How to Think, John Stuart Mill Racist, Roxanne Gay, Edith Wharton Antisemitism, reading the classics, The Coddling of the American Mind, problematic books, problematic faves, Cancel culture, death of the author