Erin Risch Zoutendam
@erin_zoutendam
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Core Fellow @SetonHall. PhD from @DukeReligion. Researching the use of scripture in medieval & early modern mystical texts. Likes birds, cats, horses.
dieses Jammertal
Joined September 2008
Molly and I are begging everyone to read Tom Jones so that we can all talk about it together all the time. Thanks in advance for your compliance!!.
I've finally finished Tom Jones (THE PERFECT SUMMER READ) and have an important note: Blifil is right up there with Humbert Humbert for literary characters whose names *perfectly* communicate their moral and interior ICK!.
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RT @jrmcmanaway: There's no such thing as "critical thinking" that doesn't happen in the substrate of just knowing things! How are you goin….
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"You can just look everything up." Ha! 1) It is time-prohibitive to look everything up if you don't know all that much in the first place, and 2) you can't look something up if you don't even know what you're looking for.
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I also think that de-emphasizing objectivity in the humanities has back-fired. It makes the field seem* unrigorous to STEM students, who fill entire whiteboards with all the facts they have to memorize for anatomy.
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As An Historian (TM), it drives me crazy to hear that history isn't just "names and dates." Ok, but it is certainly a lot of names and dates and other sorts of facts. Good luck drawing connections if you can't remember who did what when.
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One of my least fashionable pedagogical opinions is that we should bring back rote memorization in a big way.
Increasingly convinced the incessant claim that a humanities education is about "critical thinking"—rather than content mastery—is a scam designed to justify the humanities in "skill-building" terms that are legible within the university's new role as a credentialing bureaucracy.
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I like these little study desks with cubbies for your books. The one on the left is from the Capitoline Museums and the one on the right is from the Uffizi.
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The reviews are in. Tom Jones is a romp!.
@erin_zoutendam I decided to try Tom .Jones after you recommended it during our @CatherineProj seminar. What a ROMP! Only 200/900 pages in, but pure pleasure so far. Excited to see where this history ends.
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checking out this little stack of books, imagining everyone at the front desk envious of the "bad boy" vibes it gives off (that definitely happens; no fact checking)
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There is also a third type of person, the person who only read the last chapter of AV.
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These are two very different types of people, believe it or not.
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I saw someone tweet that MacIntyre changed the course of their thinking, and I think that's true for so many of us.
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When it comes to my own life and thinking, 'Whose Justice?' has been the most influential of MacIntyre's works, but that chapter on Austen still stands out in my memory as the most representative of how MacIntyre was able to see and say things that no one else could see or say.
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Anyone who read Austen at a young age understands intuitively the full moral force of her novels, even if they can't articulate it, but that's the thing—I'd never seen anyone articulate it.
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I read 'After Virtue' cover to cover because I assumed everyone else was doing the same (they were not). What impressed me most at the time was seeing a Very Serious Philosopher take Jane Austen seriously as a moral thinker rather than dismissing her as a writer of chick lit. .
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