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Jay Stevenson, Ph.D., teaches writing, English literature, and cultural studies at Rutgers University

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I love history and I thought this would be an entertaining look at heroes throughout history. I was so wrong. This made history very boring. I barely made it through this book. I've read other Complete Idiot's Guide books and I enjoyed them... but this one was not for me.
 
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Mandy_Helfer | 1 altra recensione | Dec 30, 2022 |
I love history and I thought this would be an entertaining look at heroes throughout history. I was so wrong. This made history very boring. I barely made it through this book. I've read other Complete Idiot's Guide books and I enjoyed them... but this one was not for me.
 
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DanHelfer | 1 altra recensione | Dec 29, 2022 |
Yes, yes, I know—but let's face it, I'm never going to read Derrida or Lacan or Hobbes cover to cover, so I gave this a whirl. I think I get Plato and Aristotle a little better after reading this, but as the book progresses and Stevenson is trying to cram ever more philosophers into a single chapter, it becomes a confusing mass of seemingly interchangeable ideas. (Or maybe the emperor really does have no clothes on.) I knew enough about feminist philosophers before starting this to know that he was really over-simplifying and leaving things out in this chapter (peril of the format, I know), but there were some issues with that chapter regardless: bell hooks is awesome, but she is not Bell Hooks, and surely Stevenson had read enough of her work before writing this guide that he knew that. The entire last chapter on New Age Philosophy was surely included as a tongue-in-cheek joke. Skimmable.… (altro)
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siriaeve | 1 altra recensione | Nov 3, 2013 |
Yessss.... or again, no. There are better introductions out there.
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tole_lege | 1 altra recensione | Dec 21, 2005 |

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15
Utenti
644
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#39,181
Voto
3.1
Recensioni
4
ISBN
28
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