Nudge, nudge, gentle readers, just to be clear.

[Mark Kohut]

She, Montaigne as a model, is a participant in the lifetime of philosophy
and literary reading and biographical understanding.
The arc of the book moves through all the ideas to......ultimately, a paean
to seeing......fresh, new and clearly ...like an artist
or the best journalist.....
and what won me fully over was when she said that, when young it was the
ideas, now, older it is the wonderful human comedy (my paraphrase)
of them all that keeps her reading...

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Yes -  I read At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell and I liked it
> so much I almost got my hair cut like the author’s (only a friend dissuaded
> me).    I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in 20th century
> European philosophers of the existentialist variety.  She gets it right.
>
>
> Becky
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>
> > On Oct 17, 2017, at 2:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > MK: I'm not starting the [M & D] Read.
> >
> > MK: I like it so I hope if we do almost everyone jumps into the dance.
> > I  will.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------
> > Meanwhile, I want to highly recommend a book in which Melanie Jackson
> > appears on the last acknowledgments page. With therefore hints that
> > maybe her shadow reader husband was involved in parts? *
> >
> > That book is AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE by Sarah Bakewell.
> > "No ideas but in people", one might adapt WCWilliams' remark to describe
> this book.
> >
> > Wherein one of the interesting, but minor things I learned, was that the
> CIA
> > got the dying Franz Fanon out of Algeria to a hospital in Bethesda MD,
> where
> > he did die. at 38.
> >
> >
> > * In which I also learned that Heidegger had a "They/Them" as
> controllers of us all in some of his writing,
> > I think in the later work, The Question of Technology. In which I
> learned that a writer on human beings and computers named
> > Dreyfus evidently wrote a very good book in 2001 on why "the Internet is
> THE technological innovation that
> > most clearly reveals what technology is". Which makes a reader of
> BLEEDING EDGE want to read it.
> >
> > PS I think this guy is Herbert Dreyfus, I'm not looking anything up, who
> I remember reading much earlier than 2001; a book about computers and beings
> > in which I think he predicted that a machine could not beat the best
> chess players which gave me hope until they did. (But
> > I may have a self-created memory of Herb)
>
>
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