Sam Rocha Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sam Rocha

Ojibwe author Patty Krawec writes about Indigenous peoples, Christians 'Becoming Kin' https://t.co/0YPUjHB0nU

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Cornel West's treatment of Emerson in *The American Evasion of Philosophy* is a great model, I think, of philosophical integrity without skimming over political and moral harm.

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One will notice how Marx’s best critic, Hannah Arendt, digs into his actual analysis to produce a similar criticism as the one I have noted here. She argues that he conflates labour with work and proceeds to distinguish them in the realm of human action in *the Human Condition*.

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I appreciated Alan Taylor's review of Ned Blackhawk's *The Rediscovery of America* in the @nybooks, but the uneven tone, from a scold to a knowing description, was off-putting. The "strawman" accusation seemed especially overwrought given the historical narrative in the culture.

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"The Bourgeoisie and the Counter-Revolution," Karl Marx, *Neue Rheinische Zeitung* No. 165, December, 9, 1848: "We have never concealed the fact that we do not proceed from a legal basis, but from a revolutionary basis..." (cont.)

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I used to teach John Dewey's *Experience and Education* with Carter G. Woodson's *The Miseducation of the Negro* with Washington's *The Great Debaters* accompanied by Lauryn Hill's *The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill* with an autobiographical assignment on miseducation. https://t.co/f1Kpc9an1y

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This view is probably over-informed by Homer's Iliad: the Greeks and the Trojans share a divine cosmology and pantheon along with food and drink and customs; they are totally alike in nearly every substantial way. This is the ground for epic conflict, not real difference.

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According to Cristina Sicardi, in her book *Pier Giorgio Frassati: A Hero for Our Times,* “in Pier Giorgio’s opinion, it was no longer enough to employ caritas; justicia was necessary, the justice pursued both by socialism and by Catholic social teaching.”

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The Socrates that we see in most of Plato's dialogues is an anti-sophistical sophist, by necessity more than by choice. I think we need this same type of figure in relation to today's apologists.

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@FrTotleben I will, if you don't mind: Massimo Faggioli, Tony Annet, Nicole Flores, Timothy Radcliffe, Enrique Dussel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Anne Phillips, Wendy Brown, Meghan Clarke, Richard Rodriguez, Michael Eric Dyson, Richard Delgado, Kimberle Crenshaw...

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