Adam DeVille on Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia”
From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog: In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…
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From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog: In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…
I actually quite enjoy Gladwell’s articles – a bit solutionist at times but he can tell a story well. Like many other books by New Yorker writers whose New Yorker…
Somewhere along the way I came across references to Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies and finally read it in recent weeks. Tainter’s prose style reminded me a little of John…
This was a stimulating read. To a certain degree, something not unlike what I internally call The Oxford Murders Effect was at play in this review – the context of when I read…