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https://newrepublic.com/article/158973/everyday-inspiration-anna-karenina
#newrepublic #annakarenina #tolstoy #everydayinspiration #inspiration
Did distractions, disruptions, and gossip shape Tolstoy’s novel as much as long-simmering ideas about morality and desire?
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-alternative-common-sense-notes-on-carlo-michelstaedters-philosophy/
#michaelstaedters #philosophy #lareviewofbooks
Dylan J. Montanari parses “The Wreckage of Philosophy,” the new book by Mimmo Cangiano on Carlo Michelstaedter’s thought.
https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-why-we-hoard-when-we-store-and-who-collects
#hoard #hoarding #history #AEON #aeonmagasine
Whether collecting, storing or hoarding, we’ve always had our issues with stuff – not least deciding what’s worth having
#REDISCOVERINGtheISLAMICCLASSICS #PrintCulture #IntellectualTradition #PrincetonUniversityPress
#socialhistory #books #Islamic #islamicthought.
REDISCOVERING the ISLAMIC CLASSICS: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (Princeton University Press) presents a detailed, sophisticated, and thoroughly enjoyable intellectual and social history of the modern publishing industry and on what we today consider canonical books of Islamic thought. Ahmed El-Shamsy fills us in on the project 👇
https://newbooksnetwork.com/ahmed-el-shamsy-rediscovering-the-islamic-classics-princeton-up-2020/
https://www.1843magazine.com/upfront/brave-new-word/do-you-speak-corona-a-guide-to-covid19-slang
Around the world, coronavirus is changing how we speak. Don’t be a “covidiot” - make sure your pandemic parlance is up to scratch
#inthesetimes #stayhome #lithub #literaryhub #travelinyourroom #travel #WillSchwalbe #XavierdeMaistre #Maistre #1790 #StudyofIsolation #isolation #readingsforthequarantine
https://lithub.com/how-to-spend-42-days-stuck-in-your-room/
A Journey Around My Room was written in 1790 by a young French officer named Xavier de Maistre, who had found himself in some trouble over a duel (illegal) and was sentenced to house arrest. (I rea…
#decameron #italy #italianiterature #coronavirus #survival
The spread of the Covid-19 virus has triggered an epidemic of advice. This advice is important, but it seems destined to make our lives more miserable and isolated. However, there is an unusual source of counsel which offers another way to deal with an epidemic. That source is the Decameron. The Ita...
#gilgamesh #sumerian #sumeria #epic
Who actually wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh down?
#flax #flaxage #iron #ironage
Archaeology has traditionally had a fundamental bias against fabric. Fabrics are after all highly perishable, withering away within months or years, and only rarely leaving traces behind for those …
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/rips_nicolaia_21_october_2019.php
#bread #romans #flour #ideology
The dark and white flours of ideology
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4460-there-is-always-in-history-this-possibility-of-the-unexpected-interview-with-carlo-ginzburg
#ginzburg #carloginzburg #interview #history #unexpectedhistory Verso Books
Carlo Ginzburg, author of The Cheese and the Worms, is one of Europe's most influential historians. In this interview with Claire Zalc, Ginzburg discusses the influence of his parents - the novelist Natalia Ginzburg and scholar of Russian literature Leone Ginzburg - his childhood in Fascist Italy, h...
#whypoetrymatters #poetry #auden #whauden #poetrynotluxury #surviving #weneedpoetrytosurvive
This wonderful book might be read as a long meditation on WH Auden’s notorious throwaway comment in his elegy for WB Yeats: “Poetry makes nothing happen.” John Burnside’s first chapter engages directly with this maxim, patiently showing us what it does and does not mean in its context. Auden...
#books #deadlydiseases #librarybooks #reading
On September 12, 1895, a Nebraskan named Jessie Allan died of tuberculosis. Such deaths were a common occurrence at the turn of the 20th century, but Allan’s case of “consumption” reportedly came from an unusual source. She was a librarian at the Omaha Public Library, and thanks to a common fe...
#millennial #millennialliterature #millennialnovel
Crushingly self-aware protagonists, the search for a place to call home, a longing for stability ... is the millennial generation too fragmented to be defined, asks Olivia Sudjic
#peirce #america #americanphilosophy #analyticphilosophy #cspeirce Aeon
Charles Sanders Peirce was a brilliant philosopher, mathematician and scientist. His polymathic work should be better known
Arts & Letters Daily #intellectuals #newintellectuals #academic #academicjobs #university #professors
Is the academic-jobs crisis a boon to public culture?
#economics #america #capitalism #marketeconomy Arts & Letters Daily
The rise and fall of an imperial discipline. Economics once wielded vast political influence, but is the intellectual marketplace now moving on?
Literary Hub #haidangphan #poetic #distance
For this installment in our interview series with contemporary poets, Peter Mishler corresponded with Hai-Dang Phan. Hai-Dang Phan was born in Vietnam in 1980 and grew up in Wisconsin. His work has…
#college #dropout #usa
Forty percent of students don’t graduate. No one is held accountable. No one is fired. That must change.
#weber #maxweber #lecture #ourtime #diagnosis
A political ethic for a disenchanted era.
#anthropology #mead #margaretmead #gin #academia #malaria
How the misadventures of Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson shaped anthropology.
#melville #hermanmelville #farm #writing #sanity
The novelist drew on far-flung voyages to create his masterpiece. But he could finish it only at his beloved Berkshire farm.
#trendy #academia #academics #tyranny #ideas #philosophy #poetics #aristotles
Academics pretend to be above cheap and trivial fads. We aren’t.
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Walnut inlaid writing-table. The property of Sir George Donaldson.
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d8c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
One of hundreds of thousands of free digital items from The New York Public Library.
https://lithub.com/on-being-a-woman-who-loves-math/
#math #women Literary Hub
All my life I’ve been aware of the disheartening fact that as a society, we generally find intellect off-putting in women, and do our best to squash it. Growing up, I found it exasperating, but als…
#postmodernism #humanities
No other idea from the humanities had so vast, if murky, an influence.
#libraryofcongress #buddha #chinese #chineseart
Cross-posting this stunning “Pic of the Week” post from the Library of Congress Blog. The picture is from a 15th-century Chinese publication “The Life and Activities of Shakyamuni Buddha Incarnate.” To find out more, go to http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/06/pic-of-the-week-ancient-china-edition/?loclr=fbint.
#robertcaro #greatmantheory #history #historians Jacobin Magazine
Robert Caro has penned more magisterial works of history than nearly anyone else. But without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, his new memoir Working is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.
https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/other-zionism
History Today #zionsim #review #history
https://lithub.com/the-real-life-castaway-behind-robinson-crusoe-actually-asked-to-be-dropped-off/
#crusoe #robinsoncrusoe Literary Hub
Three hundred years ago this week, a convicted heretic, hustler and ex-spy published a book about a reckless young man washed up on a deserted island. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe presented itsel…
https://daily.jstor.org/stockholm-syndrome/
#stockholmsyndrome #stockholm #psychology JSTOR
What really happened that summer day in 1973? And what does it reveal about our cultural attitudes toward violence?
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/medieval-innovations
#medieval #innovation Lapham's Quarterly #medievalinnovations #bern
From founding Bern and opening the Saint Gotthard Pass to the rise of Amsterdam.
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