LM Sacasas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. TuchmanLM SacasasA friend’s newsletter drew this paragraph from Barbara Tuchman’s history of 14th century Europe, A Distant Mirror, to my attention today. https://t.co/Mc0j9ys374
Paperback, 1987
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The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil
Silvia Caprioglio PanizzaLM SacasasBest discovery of the day: "The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil" by Silvia Panizza. Worst discovery of the day: The price tag.
Paperback, 2024
$54.99$29.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil PostmanLM Sacasas“There is no murder so brutal, no earthquake so devastating, no political blunder so costly … that it cannot be erased from our minds by a newscaster saying, ‘Now … this.’” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death https://t.co/rsHCoSHL7l
Paperback, 2005
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tragic Sense Of Life
Miguel de UnamunoLM Sacasas“It is not enough to cure the plague: we must learn to weep for it. Yes, we must learn to weep! Perhaps that is the supreme wisdom.” — Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life
Paperback, 2011
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Human Condition: Second Edition
Hannah ArendtLM Sacasas“… it could be that we, who are earth-bound creatures and have begun to act as though we were dwellers of the universe, will forever be unable to understand, that is, to think and speak about the things which nevertheless we are able to do.” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Paperback, 2018
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel De UnamunoLM Sacasas“It is not enough to cure the plague: we must learn to weep for it. Yes, we must learn to weep! Perhaps that is the supreme wisdom.” — Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life
Hardcover, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan IllichLM Sacasas“Certain tools are destructive no matter who owns them, whether it be the Mafia, stockholders, a foreign company, the state, or even a workers' commune.” — Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality
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The Embers and the Stars
Erazim KohákLM Sacasas"We need to recognize that the suffering we impose on animals is not automatically justified by our convenience." — Erazim Kohák, The Embers and the Stars (1984) https://t.co/jZChlfjFSU
Paperback, 1987
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Deschooling Society
Ivan IllichLM Sacasas“Surrounded by all-powerful tools, man is reduced to a tool of his tools. Each of the institutions meant to exorcise one of the primeval evils has become a fail-safe, self-sealing coffin for man.” — Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
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Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W. H. Auden
Susannah Young-Ah GottliebLM SacasasHannah Arendt cited in Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb’s “Regions of Sorrow.” https://t.co/jdmuYLlJLb
Paperback, 2003
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