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Great Books from High School Summer Reading Lists Jetta Productions / Getty Images Erin Collazo Miller Updated August 11, 2018 Erin Collazo Miller is a freelance book critic whose work has appeared regularly in the Orlando Sentinel. High school summer reading lists are legendary. Many of us, however, managed to make it out of high school without being assigned some essential summer reading title..

Nonfiction How Humans Gained an ‘Extra Life’ A nurse administers the polio vaccine — just one of the many innovations over the last 150 years that Steven Johnson argues has allowed humans to double their life span in that time.Credit...Bettmann/Getty Images Buy Book ▾ Amazon Apple Books Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop IndieBound By Steven Pinker New York Times May 11, 2021 EXTRA LIFE A..

중세는 찬란한 고대문화를 파괴한 ‘암흑기’인가? 대학지성 In & Out 기자 2021.04.25 18:00 ■ 중세 이야기: 신들과 전쟁, 기사들의 시대 | 안인희 지음 | 지식서재 | 400쪽 오늘날의 유럽을 제대로 이해하기 위해 반드시 알아야 할 중세 이야기 36편을 역사순으로 소개해 주는 책이다. 중세는 흔히 암흑시대로 여겨지지만, 사실은 매우 역동적으로 발전하던 중요한 시대였다. 이 시대에 현대 유럽을 위한 수많은 것들이 만들어졌기 때문이다. 중세는 역사의 무대가 유럽 대륙 전체로 확대된 “진정한 유럽 역사의 시작”이자, 이교 신들과의 싸움, 기독교 내분, 교황과 황제, 교황과 교황의 싸움이 펼쳐진 “종교 전쟁의 시대”이며, 종교적 전설과 기적, 기사들의 모험을 둘러싼 “환상의 시대”였다. 또한..

Jonathan McHugh Show Hide image Books Why work lost its worth The shared moral project of the next decade will be restoring the link between labour, community and a meaningful life. By Rowan Williams New Statesman 14 April 2021 One of the most vacuous idioms we use about our moral and social debates is the idea of being “on the side of history”. The plain meaning of this is that “history” – the ..

The Past Is a Southern County A new critical biography of William Faulkner Leo Robson Book Forum Mar/Apr/May 2021 The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by michael gorra. new york: liveright. 448 pages. $30. SOONER OR LATER, every great novelist, however ornery or eremitic, is portrayed as an observer of their times. “Flaubert’s Politics” must have sounded like a joke title, a parody of..

The Heart of Progress Reviewed by Luma Simms The University Book Man Mar 28, 2021 A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics by Matthew W. Slaboch. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Hardcover, 208 pages, $47.50. My parents marveled at the freeways when we first came to America. As they learned to drive the streets and highways in this new land while navigating their way around..

Why Do We Believe in Photographs? David Levi Strauss’s new book looks at the ancient roots of photography to understand how the medium became so distorted in the present. Will Fenstermaker The Nation April 9, 2021 The supposed profile of Jesus Christ from the Turin Shroud. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images) One of the more speculative tales surrounding the Sh..

A Precocious Teenager Faces a Rare Disease in Ae-ran Kim’s Touching Debut Novel, “My Brilliant Life” Reviewed by Martha Anne Toll Words without Borders March 2021 issue Translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim Forge Books, 2021 A best seller in South Korea, where it was made into a movie, this fable-like book in the vein of Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" features a sixteen..

Methods of Power How do authoritarians rule? By David A. Bell The Nation APRIL 6, 2021 Benito Mussolini. (Getty) The intellectual left reacted to Donald Trump’s election in 2016 in two very different ways. One group, like so many in the general public, immediately fell into full panic mode. The historian Timothy Snyder, for instance, rushed into print with a book called On Tyranny and in an inte..

새로운 철학적 인간학…트랜스휴머니즘과 포스트휴머니즘 조창오 부산대·철학 대학지성 2021.03.28 19:00 ■ 역자가 말하다_ 『트랜스휴머니즘과 포스트휴머니즘』 (야니나 로 지음, 조창오 옮김, 부산대학교출판문화원, 269쪽, 2021.02) 현시대 인문학에서 가장 인기 있는 개념이라면 ‘포스트휴머니즘’이라 할 수 있다. 마치 90년대 초에 ‘포스트모더니즘’이 인기를 끌었던 것과 유사한 현상이다. ‘포스트모더니즘’은 ‘모더니즘’ 이후의 사조를 가리킨다. 그렇다면 ‘포스트휴머니즘’은 ‘휴머니즘’ 이후의 사조를 가리키는가? 그렇다. ‘포스트모더니즘’의 경우와 마찬가지로 여기서 ‘포스트’는 단순히 시간적인 선후만을 의미하지는 않는다. 그렇다면 어떠한 경우의 수가 있을까? 휴머니즘 이후의 포스트휴머니즘은 휴..