When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of star player Hank Gathers, was making its spirited run in the NCAA basketball tournament last spring, CBS did a short feature on Gathers before one of the team’s games. At one point. Brent . . . . Continue Reading »
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor Harvard University Press, 601 pages, $29.95 To describe Sources of the Self as a learned book would be a little like describing Michael Jordan as a skilled basketball player: accurate, but hardly adequate to the phenomenon. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Giving and Taking of Life: Essays Ethical _ by James Turnstead Burchtaell _ University of Notre Dame Press, 324 pages, $29.95 A powerful truth, pressed too far, may finally mislead. That, or something like it, seems to me the right way to describe this book. The essays gathered in this volume . . . . Continue Reading »
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