Toril Moi 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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Literature prof. Duke, researcher Norwegian National Library, writer Morgenbladet

17 books

Beauvoir: Jefferson Davis Shrine

Anonymous

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The webinar on “Beauvoir as a literary theorist” is tomorrow at 6 p.m. EST. Ashley Scheu (Eckerd College) and I will discuss #Beauvoir’s thinking about literature, and her contemporary relevance. @SDB_Studies Here’s the link for registration: https://t.co/aMdEAK6okJ

Paperback, 2021

$18.16$9.08 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary

Stephen Mulhall

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There is a fascinating conference coming up online: Stanley #Cavell : A Retrospective. It will take place in Italy, but in English. Keynote speakers: Stephen Mulhall and Sandra Laugier. On september 23 and 24. More information here: https://t.co/yIn3GqPKFM

Paperback, 1999

$76.00$51.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)

Long Live the Post Horn!

Vigdis Hjorth

Toril Moi

I was so thrilled to see that @NewYorker included Vigdis Hjorth’s brilliant novel “Long Live the Post Horn!” on its list of the best books of the year. It’s funny, deep, and thoughtful. And it’s about bureaucracy, language, and the meaning of life. https://t.co/NCNf622yK2

Paperback, 2020

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Childhood

Nathalie Sarraute

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Yesterday, 18th July, was Nathalie Sarraute’s birthday. Maybe a good time to (re)read her beautiful memoir Enfance / Childhood? https://t.co/QVc1s00Kbh

Paperback, 2013

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein for Social and Political

Hanna F. Pitkin

Toril Moi

The Forthcoming Issue of Polity has a cluster of essays on Hanna Pitkin, pioneering political scientist who wrote #Wittgenstein and Justice. Essays by @veenadas1, Sandra Laugier, Linda Zerilli, myself, and many others. Sadly the cluster now is in memoriam. https://t.co/rTKEbynIjJ

Paperback, 1973

$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

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My student Savannah Marciezyk @savs_thoughts has a spirited piece out on LitHub, about Plath’s The Bell Jar and Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library! Telling us firmly why Plath is so much better.Congratulations! https://tinyurl.com/42cm3wjd

Paperback, 2005

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin's Philosophy

Niklas Forsberg

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Niklas Forsberg’s account of the contrast between “traditional” philosophy, whether continental or analytical, and ordinary language philosophy, is eminently clear. Excellent for students! In the introduction to Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary — his new book on Austin. https://t.co/SCDQL8uDc0

Paperback, 2024

$54.99$29.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

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@chezaristote I shamelessly copy from Wikipedia: Beware of Pity (German: Ungeduld des Herzens, literally The Heart's Impatience) is a 1939 novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. — great choice!

Paperback, 2020

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

A Defense of Judgment

Michael W. Clune

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A fascinating symposium on judgment coming up at Harvard, with Michael Clune (A Defense of Judgment), R Lehman, R Moran. T Davis and N Serpell. Friday Sept 24, 11 - 1 pm and 4-6 p.m. Online, get zoomlink by emailing the people mentioned on this website: https://t.co/iNdZVa6rps

Hardcover, 2021

$103.00$78.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)

Modernism and Mimesis

Stephen D. Dowden

Toril Moi

A friend of mine says that Stephen D. Dowden’s Modernism and Mimesis (2020) is the best book on #modernism ever. But there are no reviews anywhere! If it has a provocative, new idea about modernism, why has it been met with silence? Have any of you out there read it? Comments? https://t.co/a073Qi2TRv

Hardcover, 2020

$119.99$94.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)