Books and libraries

Morton, B. (2019, January 8). Virginia Woolf? Snob! Richard Wright? Sexist! Dostoyevsky? Anti-Semite! The New York Times.

Is it okay to appreciate creations by imperfect human beings? Morton offers a nuanced perspective.

Piper, A. (2012). Book was there: Reading in electronic times. University of Chicago Press.

Carrière, J.-C., & Eco, U. (2011). This is Not the End of the Book. Harvill Secker.

Eco is interesting, as usual. Meanwhile, Carrière:

And anyway, what about the cultures that haven’t developed what we call philosophy? That’s what I meant just now by saying that anthropology is just as important. The notion of a ‘philosophical concept’, for instance, is a purely Western one. Try explaining ‘concept’ to an Indian—even a highly sophisticated one—or ‘transcendence’ to a Chinese person! (p. 233 in the eBook)

Really, my man? (To be fair, he wrote a long French play based on the Indian epic Mahabharata, as he was "completely enchanted" by it. So, maybe he meant something else here? I don't know.)

If I get time