davidrieff Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700
Jonardon Ganeri
A book that has changed my view of the world (not something I say often and never something I say lightly): Book recommendation of the day: The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700 by Jonardon Ganeri (Oxford, 2011)
Paperback, 2014
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The Trouble with Being Born
E. M. Cioran
“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” ― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
Paperback, 2013
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The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal
Martha C. Nussbaum
@JohnTillinghast Cosmopolitanism is surely Western in origin, as Martha Nussbaum explains in her simultaneously brilliant & blinkered way in The Cosmopolitan Tradition. Liberal? Not sure. But I support Ukraine because I believe their cause is just, not because they're a liberal Western society.
Paperback, 2021
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Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit
@daniel_dsj2110 Depends. Rebecca Solnit's recent "Orwell's Roses" was very valuable and "necessary" to the extent any book is "necessary" (and forget about bad ones, the truth is that in the light of eternity very, even very few good ones are).
Paperback, 2022
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Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
Agha Shahid Ali
Book recommendation of the day: The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, translated by Agha Shahid Ali (The University of Massachusetts Press, 1995)
Paperback, 2003
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Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
@daniel_dsj2110 Hannah Arendt - at least the Hannah Arendt of THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM - would have agreed with him, I think.
Paperback, 2011
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Appeasement and Rearmament: Britain, 1936-1939
James P. Levy
@PatPorter76 💯And maybe even try reading James Levy's Appeasement and Rearmament Britain, 1936–1939
Paperback, 2006
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
Antony Beevor
Russia: Revolution and Civil War review: What Antony Beevor gets wrong - New Statesman https://t.co/qFSY39pnLH
Hardcover, 2022
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Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland
John McCourt
@JacqBetula Cormac Ó Gráda gave me this. Quite brilliant, I thought. Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland: John McCourt: Bloomsbury Academic https://t.co/IJ48DEn2UD
Hardcover, 2022
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All the Lives We Never Lived
Anuradha Roy
@mirakamdar @festival_livre @MirzaWaheed Sorry to miss that! Huge fan of Anuradha Roy, above all of All The Lives We Never Lived, but also of her journalism. Will it be podcast?
Paperback, 2019
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