How to Read: Simon Critchley’s Guide to the Great Texts of Humanity
By Maria Popova
Last week marked the release of How to Write a Sentence — the much-buzzed-about modern rival of the iconic The Elements of Style. And it reminded us of a fantastic series of books by editor Simon Critchley that addresses the other end of the equation: How to Read.
Each of the books tackles one of humanity’s great texts of literature, philosophy, science and religion, from Shakespeare to Freud to Darwin to the Bible, and enlists a leading scholar in that subject to break down the classic in a way that facilitates, deepens and enriches your understanding of it.
The collection includes the following titles, each a treasure trove of intellectual stimulation and contextual fascination:
- How to Read Beauvoir
- How to Read Derrida
- How to Read Foucault
- How to Read Freud
- How to Read Heidegger
- How to Read Hitler
- How to Read Hume
- How to Read Kierkegaard
- How to Read Lacan
- How to Read Marx
- How to Read Nietzsche
- How to Read Wittgenstein
- How to Read Sade
- How to Read Sartre
- How to Read Shakespeare
- How to Read the Bible
- How to Read the Qur’an
- How to Read the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Bonus points for the beautifully designed paperback covers.
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Published February 3, 2011
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/02/03/simon-critchley-how-to-read/
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