faithasawayoflife: On good books

December 14, 2007

On good books

From Charles Taylor's discussion of the role of media (originally print media) in creating the modern public sphere as a social space for common deliberation, I found a quote a just love. It is from Louis Sebastien Mercier, and to be fair I've taken the quote out of context. See the whole quote in Taylor, 188-189.

"ces bons livres sont des maitres patients"

"these good books are patient masters"

It explains something about why I love books, and love being surrounded by them, and consider some of my most important mentors to be people I only know through reading.

Anon,

Chris

Dec 14, 2007 9:47:13 AM

1 Comment

Christian,
Not sure if you were at the AAR session in Nov where Bella responded to Taylor's book. I recorded Taylor's response right after Bella concluded his remarks but I was in part of the room you couldn't hear well. But I have a good recording of an interview with Bella.

http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2007/11/audio-from-a-fe.html

andy

Th.D student
Duke Divinity School
www.andyrowell.net

Posted by: Andy Rowell | December 17, 2007 at 11:44 AM

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