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Damon Young is an Honorary Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia and a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines and radio.

Verk av Damon Young

The Art of Reading (2016) 121 exemplar
How to Think About Exercise (2014) 79 exemplar
Distraction (2008) 61 exemplar
Philosophy in the Garden (2012) 43 exemplar
My Nanna Is A Ninja (2014) 32 exemplar
My pop is a pirate (2015) 6 exemplar
My Dad is a Dragon (2019) 3 exemplar
My sister is a superhero (2016) 2 exemplar
Bahçede Felsefe (2021) 2 exemplar

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Födelsedag
1975-08-16
Kön
male
Land (för karta)
Australia
Födelseort
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Yrken
philosopher
writer

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Distraction is praktische filosofie in de stijl van Alain de Botton: de schrijver bekijkt een bepaald thema door de lens van het werk en leven van een handvol grote denkers en kunstenaars en trekt daar levenslessen uit. Best een aardige concept, hoewel het gevaar van selectief citeren en hineininterpretieren wel om de hoek ligt. Bovendien moet worden aangetekend dat het deel dat mij het meest aansprak in feite de uitgebreide bibliografie was, waarmee het boek besluit.

Wie echter geen tijd heeft om helemaal tot daar te raken, maar wel wil kunnen meepraten, leest best door tot pagina 5. Daar poneert de schrijver namelijk de basispremisse waarop de rest van zijn werk steunt. Wij -de moderne mens, of beter nog de mens tout court- worden constant afgeleid (zie titel) van wat er echt toe doet. Het gaat er dan ook om te kunnen onderscheiden wat voor ons van waarde is en ons daarop te focussen, Nietzsche's adagium indachtig: Formel meines Glücks: Ein Ja, ein Nein, eine gerade Linie, ein Ziel. Dat poneren gaat zo: het Engelse woord voor waarde is natuurlijk 'value' en uit de ethymologie van dit woord -van het Latijnse 'valere': sterk zijn- leidt de auteur af dat wat van waarde is gelijk staat aan wat ons meer vrijheid geeft. Jawel, zo eenvoudig kan filosofie dus zijn. Je pakt een willekeurig complex vraagstuk, bekijkt de ethymologie van de gebruikte termen en redeneert spingend van associatie naar associatie naar het gewenste antwoord toe. Hoe dat dan met het Nederlandse waarde moet, weet ik niet, maar voor de angelsaksische wereld is dit dilemma in ieder geval van de baan. Next please!… (mer)
 
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BartGr. | 1 annan recension | Jan 29, 2019 |
I basically liked and enjoyed this book especially his delineation of what is necessary for the “art” of reading: curiosity, patience, courage, pride, temperance, justice. However, even though it was a short book, it was too drawn out, in my opinion. He could have said things more succinctly. He seemed to be taking himself and this subject much too seriously. An essay probably would have been sufficient.
 
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joyfulmimi | 1 annan recension | Oct 6, 2018 |
I said in my previous post about Damon Young’s The Art of Reading that I didn’t expect to read it straight through, all in one go, as I usually do – but I couldn’t resist the chapter on Patience. I read it this morning over my Sunday morning mushrooms-on-toast, overlooking my back garden washed clean by the torrent of rain that came with a thunderstorm at three o’clock this morning.

I wrote that last sentence on purpose: did it provoke you to mutter ‘Oh, do get on’, as Henry James’s The Golden Bowl provokes QEII in Alan Bennett’s sly The Uncommon Reader?

(If you haven’t read An Uncommon Reader, I recommend it, even for ardent republicans. QEII stumbles into a mobile library in pursuit of one of her corgis, and while not a reader, feels obliged to borrow a book. She becomes hooked. Reading transforms her. )

Any resemblance in my writing to that of Henry James can only be in respect of requiring patience from the reader. Young notes that it requires patience of the queen to read Henry James and others like him and deconstructs the investment. It takes patience to read Xavier Herbert in Poor Fellow My Country, and half way through its 1443 pages I was beginning to wonder what I was getting out of my investment. There are books like this, says Young, with protracted sentences and slow evasiveness, books which make us feel – especially as we age and feel our time is limited – that perhaps we are wasting our time.

To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/05/01/on-patience-the-art-of-reading-by-damon-youn...
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anzlitlovers | 1 annan recension | Jul 17, 2016 |
Exercise... there's a dirty word! It is impossible to stand in line at the grocery store and not see some magazine cover promising to help lose inches and pounds without lifting a finger in exercise; or maybe promise 14 days of repetitive motion will whittle a few inches off your bum.

So when I saw the title of this book it made me stop and want to see what there was to think about in exercise. When I finished the book, it didn't take long. it's only 160 pages long. I was kind of overwhelmed with all the heavy duty philosophical discussion and references to ancient arts. The book bogged down a lot with deep discussions that seem to make their point early and then went on and on.

But there were many statements that made me think about my life and my exercise routines.

My personal exercise interests are walking and yoga so the chapters on those areas stood out for me.
Any time you read a self-help book and come away having "seen the light", finding ways to improve the quality of your life, then the author has been successful.
… (mer)
 
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Itzey | 1 annan recension | Jan 23, 2016 |

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12
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Medlemmar
365
Popularitet
#65,883
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
6
ISBN
58
Språk
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