A Hora da Estrela #5
Philip Roth completa 90 anos, Susan Neiman escreve sobre Jacob Taubes e Dara Horn reclama da maneira como as pessoas enxergam os judeus do passado.
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Um abraço,
Juliana
Coluna Folha de S. Paulo
Philip Roth, que faria 90, explorou paralisia que vem de senso de responsabilidade
A minha coluna da semana é resultado da conversa que tive com Isadora Sinay sobre “Nêmesis” (2010): o último romance de Philip Roth.
Em "Nêmesis", esses dois significados aparentam estar entrelaçados. Por um lado, o livro conta a história de um rapaz comum atormentado por um senso de responsabilidade que desconhece limites e que exige de si muito mais que ele tem a oferecer. Por outro, o romance também pode ser lido como uma tentativa de Roth de entender por que, muitas vezes, quando alguém escapa ou sobrevive a uma tragédia, acaba sendo consumida pela culpa.
Dicas
Livros
Roth Unbound: a writer and his books, Claudia Roth Pierpont (FSG, 2013)
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, Dara Horn (W.W. Norton, 2022)
Artigos
The New York Review of Books, 06.04.2023: Longing for reconciliation, por Susan Neiman.
Whether in the classroom or his favorite Berlin haunt, the Paris Bar, Taubes could talk as well about Talmud as he could about Nietzsche, as well about the Frankfurt School as the Gospels, as well about the latest French literary theory as Kafka or Kabbalah. He could talk so well about anything, in fact, that two suspicious colleagues once invented a fictitious medieval philosopher to goad him into an explanation of how this thinker bridged the gap between Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. In Professor of Apocalypse Jerry Z. Muller records four different groups of colleagues as the ostensible source of the story, often cited as proof of the accusation that Taubes was a charlatan whose mastery of texts and knowledge of their authors was less than he claimed. There’s no question that he often played fast and loose with the truth. Yet to the extent that he was a charlatan, the story reveals what sort: How gifted must one be to expostulate spontaneously on what would have been the views of a philosopher who formed a link between Thomist and Scotist thought?
The New Yorker, 22.03.2023, A Ukrainian Philosopher’s reluctant departure from Kharkiv, por Masha Gessen.
In the early days of the war, Irina wrote an essay in the Boston Review,placing Vladimir Putin’s war in the context of what the philosopher Judith Butler has called “new fascism,” a global phenomenon that legalizes the “freedom to hate.” Irina called on the world not to conflate Putin and the Russian people, many of whom, she argued, didn’t support the war. It was important to reclaim and rejuvenate the ideas of solidarity and internationalism in order to fight Putin, she wrote.
Podcast
Adventures with Dead Jews é um podcast da Tablet Magazine apresentado por Dara Horn, autora de “People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present” (W.W. Norton, 2022).