The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
Paul Fortunato
3 episodes
3 days ago
We are committed to making people readers. There are two main reasons for doing this: 1) to enrich our lives with the beauty and wisdom embedded in the great texts that older cultures have built up, using thousands of years of accumulated cultural resources. 2) to free ourselves from the frenzied, hurried lives that proliferate in ever-accelerating modernity.
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We are committed to making people readers. There are two main reasons for doing this: 1) to enrich our lives with the beauty and wisdom embedded in the great texts that older cultures have built up, using thousands of years of accumulated cultural resources. 2) to free ourselves from the frenzied, hurried lives that proliferate in ever-accelerating modernity.
MC-1-Can we build a culture on stories about nothing? American Nihilism in Pulp Fiction
The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
26 minutes 32 seconds
2 months ago
MC-1-Can we build a culture on stories about nothing? American Nihilism in Pulp Fiction
- T.S. Eliot on culture
- Nihilism - that human beings have no Telos, no purpose, no story arc.
- Pulp Fiction as case study
The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
We are committed to making people readers. There are two main reasons for doing this: 1) to enrich our lives with the beauty and wisdom embedded in the great texts that older cultures have built up, using thousands of years of accumulated cultural resources. 2) to free ourselves from the frenzied, hurried lives that proliferate in ever-accelerating modernity.
