Opine: Herman Sinaiko
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| Jan. 18, 2007 Vol. 26 No. 8 current issue archive / search contact --- Past Opine interviews: Lauren Berlant Stephen Berry John Boyer David Cohen Jerry Coyne John Cunningham Richard Epstein John Frederick Henry Frisch Austan Goolsbee Bernard Harcourt Greg Jackson Martin Marty Martha Nussbaum Raymond Pierrehumbert José Quintáns Jan-Marino Ramirez Saskia Sassen William Sewell Herman Sinaiko Geoffrey Stone Cass Sunstein Simon Swordy | Opine: Herman Sinaiko This week, Herman Sinaiko, Professor in the Humanities and the College, is of the opinion... What book should every person read and why? I can’t pick just one. First, Homer: The Iliad, to see concretely how rage, at its most intense and ultimately directed at our bodily mortality, can reveal the tragedy inherent in our all-too- human existence. And The Odyssey, to see just as concretely the extraordinary possibilities for some genuine satisfaction in the commonplace facts of our bodily mortality. Second, Plato: The Dialogues, to experience for ourselves the power of our unaided minds to question, explore and gain genuine insight into our unchanging nature and our contingent lives. Third, Shakespeare: the plays and sonnets. How can anybody who reads leave them off this sort of list? | --- |