- Paperback: 299 pages
- Publisher: Ignatius Press; New edition edition (April 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 089870183X
- ISBN-13: 978-0898701838
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #178,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Personal Library as Self-Portrait and Testament,
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This review is from: Another Sort of Learning (Paperback)
Fr. Schall, professor of Political Philosophy at Georgetown, speaks for all true bibliophiles when he writes, "There is something narrow, even self-defeating, in reading a great work only once." ANOTHER SORT OF LEARNING is a collection of short essays on the necessity of making and using a personal library. That means gathering about oneself wonderful books on diverse topics and marvelling as the years roll by that, as he says at one point, "Everything reminds me of something in Plato." Fr. Schall shuns the approach of a Master List of Books To Read Or Else. Instead, he writes elegant, meaty essays on education, philosophy, science, politics, history, and revelation, and concludes each essay with a short list of the books that nourish his own thoughts on the subject at hand. Examples of such lists include, "Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By", "Books You Will Never Be Assigned", "Seven Books on Sports and Serious Reflection", "Seven Books on the Limits of Politics", and "Five Books Addressed to the Heart of Things". Why haven't I begun to do this? Isn't it true that, in my dotage, the books I have loved and marked and returned to and brooded over and dreamed by will reveal more about The Real Me than anything else? Schall champions "the recovery of permanent things." (Readers of conservative literary critic and social philosopher Russell Kirk will recognize the phrase.) He enlists the thought and works of Plato and Aristotle, of Augustine and Aquinas, of G.K. Chesterton, [contemporary Thomist] Josef Pieper, and C.S. Lewis. Allow me to quote from the book's Conclusion: "I wanted to suggest that anyone with some diligence and some good fortune can find his way to the highest things even if such higher level concerns are not formally or systematically treated in the schools, even if they are in fact denied there or by our own friends or culture. Indeed, I would suspect that there is a certain basic loneliness in our relationships to the highest things. I am not a skeptic here, but we should not expect too much from our formal educational institutions in this regard." Can I get an "Amen"? If nothing else, considering Fr. Schall's lists of books that matter may prompt each reader to ask, while scanning the surrounding array of books, "Which books most shape my thought? How would I introduce them to others?" Fr. Schall provides a wonderfeul model of how to do that.
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I eventually had to order this book from Amazon.com.It is highly recommended by authors I admire and so I presumptuously gave it 5 stars.It is unfortunate that not all volumes are available on Amazon.ca.
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Anamnesis,
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Not just a catalogue of books, but a guide to help students (whether in school or in the real world) **recall** that education (and, indeed, human existence itself) has a higher purpose.One could spend a life-time chasing down Fr. Schall's lists and reading them; you regain that life-time when you apprehend what the book is trying to tell you (and why Schall put it on his list in the first place). Superb work, and unequalled as an originating impetus for pursuing the life of enquiry and the love of wisdom.
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