LISTEN. Kierkegaard's disjunctive title, and his existential pessimism, have new life in Elif Batuman's novel of academia from the perspective of a Harvard co-ed for whom every new experience and encounter is an occasion for extended ruminative puzzlement.
I like to read something just before a new semester to displace my usual ways of thinking about Higher Education. Batuman's narrator/protagonist Selin, a first-generation student of Turkish heritage, definitely sees school and life from an unfamiliar perspective... (continues)
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Thinking today of a beloved former "non-traditional" student, the late suffrage scholar Don Enss. https://t.co/z2nBpvGd0Z
— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) August 18, 2022
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