Sale
Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish)
Paul Dry Books
ISBN13:
9781589881600
$19.95
$18.34
Socher is one of the sharpest observers of Jewish America in our times. These essays, tracing a journey from a yeshiva to Oberlin College and from Franz Kafka to Rabbi Kook, are a loving, cutting, whimsical, and wise look at a Jewish moment that he senses might be ending.Matti Friedman, author of Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel How did Humphrey Bogart end up telling Lauren Bacall a Talmudic story in the film Key Largo, and what does that have to do with Platos theory of recollectionor American Jewish assimilation? Precisely what poem of Robert Frosts inspired Nabokovs Pale Fire, and how did Walter Benjamin learn about the remarkable stones of Sinai? Abraham Socher wears his learning lightly. These witty and original essays embody the spirit of the liberal arts, but the highlight of this collection may be his devastating account of the illiberal arts at work in Oberlin College, where he taught for eighteen years.
- | Author: Abraham Socher
- | Publisher: Paul Dry Books
- | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 232 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1589881605
- | ISBN-13: 9781589881600
- Author:
- Abraham Socher
- Publisher:
- Paul Dry Books
- Publication Date:
- Mar 15, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 232 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1589881605
- ISBN-13:
- 9781589881600