benjamin aldes wurgaft Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Writer, Historian, Appetite. Author of Ways of Eating (UC Press, 2023), Meat Planet (UC Press, 2019), Thinking in Public (Penn, 2016) & other light works.
Middlemarch
George Eliotbenjamin aldes wurgaft“But think what a bore you might become to your fellow-creatures if you were always playing tragedy queen and taking things sublimely.” - George Eliot, Middlemarch
Hardcover, 2011
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Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
John Guillorybenjamin aldes wurgaftI highly recommend @evankindley's review of John Guillory's Professing Criticism. This is a beautiful and searching review that looks for something beyond despair at the state of academic literary criticism today. https://t.co/0NsDhPn6Vx
Paperback, 2022
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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Carl E. Schorskebenjamin aldes wurgaft@damfales I think Schorske's Fin-de-Siecle Vienna would work really well, and not just because I love it.
Paperback, 1980
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The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition
Stanley Cavellbenjamin aldes wurgaftI'm reading Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed (1971) and one of its charms is Cavell's simple presentation of what he was reading when he came to these ideas about film. There's no game of pretending (as in some scholarly writing) that he always knew it all, emerging full-grown.
Paperback, 1979
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Ignorance: A Global History
Peter Burkebenjamin aldes wurgaftCan we write the history of ignorance? (Thomas Pynchon suggests yes!) I reviewed Peter Burke's Ignorance: a global history for Current https://t.co/khwd6gkVlp
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Late Lights
Kara Weissbenjamin aldes wurgaftFor years I've admired the work of my friends @BklynInstitute, and I'm excited to see them start a new journal, "Late Light," inspired by Karl Krauss's "Die Fackel" (the torch) - check it out here: https://late-light.com/about
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Make Room! Make Room!: The Classic Novel of an Overpopulated Future
Harry Harrisonbenjamin aldes wurgaft@timothysw @whitstrub Of course! It's even mentioned in my book, Meat Planet. Based on Harry Harrison's novel Make Room! Make Room!
Paperback, 2008
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Hegel
Charles Taylorbenjamin aldes wurgaft@_ryanruby_ That's my feeling too; and yeah, I think that academic specialization has certain distortion effects, as if you suddenly "discovered" a new landmass, ignoring the prior existence of Charles Taylor's 1965 "Hegel."
Paperback, 1977
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The Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food
Josh Bersonbenjamin aldes wurgaft@simontorracinta No single text, but Rachel Laudan’s Cuisine and Empire does a good job on meat, and so does Josh Berson’s The Meat Question - my own Meat Planet deals with contemporary perceptions of the history of carnivory.
Hardcover, 2019
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Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund Freudbenjamin aldes wurgaftFreud [places a banana peel in the bedroom of his sleeping children] "I know! I'll call it "Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious."
Hardcover, 2014
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