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Manny Rayner's book reviews
I love reviewing books - have been doing it at Goodreads, but considering moving here.
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The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
R in Action
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus?
Most of the people who criticize this book are referring to the English translation How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read. If you take the trouble to consult the original French edition, you'll see all sorts of clever allusions to the intertextual tradition that has grown up in Continental Philosophy over the last 40 years, many of which are lost in the transition to a different language. When Derrida observed that nous sommes tous des bricoleurs, he was stating a daring new thesis. Now, when so much of what is written is hypertext, and works are directly linked together so that a single mouse-click can take us to a "different" book, Derrida's argument is just common sense. Try explaining it to a Web-literate 15 year old, and see if you can make them understand why anyone would have found it surprising.The rest of this review is in my book What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante and Other Futile Speculations
