monnowman rated The Darkening Age: 4 stars

The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey
Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms …
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Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms …

Formerly at Princeton, King's College, Cambridge and the University of Lyon, Pascal Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University …
Listening to this in my car, I narrowly avoided crashing several times because my jaw dropped so low that it hit the steering wheel or because I was facepalming at the Trump Whitehouse.
Brilliant. All men should read this.


Emmanuel Levinas: De Dieu qui vient à l'idée (French language, 1986, J. Vrin)

In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated …