Tag: philosophy
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What I’m reading: No Straight Road
Given the unending chaos of the past several months, Rebecca Solnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain is a welcome reminder that change does indeed happen – even when it’s in such an incredibly slow manner that we may not realize it until it’s over. In “Despair is a Luxury,” Solnit…
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What I’m reading: The Power of Myth
In contrast to my last two WIR posts on books which were recent award winners, I’m going back to a 1988 publication: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers – no awards, but well worth the read…and re-read! I can’t recall when I first came across this book, but however it appeared,…
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What I’m reading: On Quality
I was eager to revisit Robert Pirsig’s writings when I picked up On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence. This relatively slim volume (133 pages vs. 430 pages in my copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values and 468 pages in my copy of Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals) was…
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What I’m reading: Montaigne in Barn Boots
As a more focused companion to The Socrates Express I wrote about earlier, Michael Perry’s Montaigne in Barn Boots covers just one of Weiner’s philosophers: Michel de Montaigne (more formally, Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, 1533-1592), often referred to as the father of the modern essay. Oddly enough, since he’s such a vaunted name these days…
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What I’m reading: The Socrates Express
Philosophy and trains and literary travel and did I mention philosophy? Eric Weiner’s travels in The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers not only motivated me to schedule a train trip for our 45th anniversary last September, his philosophical musings brought me back to a lapsed love of reading – and…
CL Pauwels at Large 