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[세계초대석] “콘텐츠의 출발은 책… 안 팔려도 가치 있는 책 계속 만들 것”세계일보 원문 |입력 2017.06.27 19:01 ‘37년 외 길’ 김종수 한울아카데미 사장 “비록 잘 팔리진 않는다 해도 가치 있는 책을 만든다면 좋겠지요. 모든 콘텐츠의 출발은 책입니다. 책을 제대로 평가하고 제대로 만..

The Vanity of Bernard-Henri Lévy Jonathan Brnitsky, The National Interest, July-August, 2017 June, 24, 2017 Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Genius of Judaism (New York: Random House, 2017), 256 pp., $28.00. BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY has been the recipient of vast quantities of acclaim, a copious dose of scorn and even a handful of projectile pies. This likely would have been t..

<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/nodeimage/public/blogs_2017/06/2017_22_churchill_john_gray.jpg?itok=8h4grHJz" alt="Churchill" /> Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images What Winston Churchill and George Orwell had in common A new book from Thomas E Ricks explores the similarities between two 20th century mave..

Crushing on Crushers Why do intellectuals fall in love with dictators and totalitarians? Theodore Dalrymple May 19, 2017 Arts and Culture From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship, by Paul Hollander (Cambridge University Press, 338 pp., $29.97) Imprisoned serial killers of women are often the object of marriage proposals from wo..

<이슬람주의와 마주보기> 역자후기 이 책은 비교역사학서로서 서구 기독교세계의 역사와 중동 및 인근 이슬람세계의 역사를 비교하면서 2001 년 9.11 사태 이후 부쩍 세계인들의 관심사와 우려의 대상이 된 이슬람주의 (‘정치 이슬람 ’으로 호칭하기도 한다 )와 과거 서구 이데올로..

교수신문 871호 이슬람주의는 사실 수십 년 전 유럽인들에 의해, 그리고 무슬림 세속주의자들에 의해 강요된 세속주의에 대한 반작용이다. 중동이 단지 근대 초기의 서구가 겪었던 일을 겪어야 한다고 말하는 사람들은 그런 일이 이미 일어났음을 알아야 한다. 더군다나 세속주의는 전통..

Was Nazi Germany Made in America? A new history argues convincingly that institutionalized racism and common-law pragmatism in the United States inspired Hitler’s policies By David MikicsTablet, March, 2017 On July 26, 1935, about a thousand anti-Nazi demonstrators attacked the SS Bremen, a sleek, state-of-the-art German ocean liner that had docked in New York. The protesters..

Be Like a Fox by Erica Benner review – was Machiavelli really not Machiavellian? The Prince was meant ironically, and its author was really a nice guy, argues this compulsively readable study Terry Eagleton Wednesday 15 March 2017 09.00 GMT Last modified on Saturday 18 March 2017 00.11 GMT The Guardian One has grown used to reading the kind of revisionist history in whic..

One of the World’s Oldest Reading Rooms at the University of Oxfordby Memolition · February 8, 2017 Built in 1487, Duke Humfrey’s Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Duke Humfrey’s Library is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, a younger son of Henry IV of England. He was a connoisseur of litera..

The Art of Rivalry review – when Bacon met Freud and other creative friendships How Picasso became pals with Matisse and why Manet slashed a Degas … all in Sebastian Smee’s study of painter friends Admiration and anxiety … Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in 1974. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery London Guardian 4 February 2017 00.10 GMT In the end, the true arti..