[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Diversity Questions
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:56:47 -0400
Thanks for the suggestion! From what I can tell, however, this is a
religious and prescriptive book rather than a forensic account of
actual evidence.
The Sacks book is reviewed here
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/11/14/095619.php
and the Amazon review (from Library Journal) is here:
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826414435/702-5544037-2747257
From Library Journal
The chief rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth, Sacks is well known
through his appearances on British television and through his 12
books (e.g., A Letter in the Scroll). Americans will be taken with
his incisive arguments and clear writing style. What he presents
here is not a treatise on Jewish faith and customs but a look at the
discontents of our world and how religious values can unite rather
than divide us. Sacks sees certain values (e.g., education,
responsibility, charity) as imperative to any new world order,
regardless of one's religious beliefs. Though these values might
seem self-evident, he shows how their absence causes much that is
wrong. He further exhorts us to explore more covenantal
relationships, which he defines as "a bond, not of interest and
advantage, but of belonging" and sees as paramount to our
survival-more so than commercial relationships, however essential
they are to capitalist society. Throughout, Sacks makes reference to
demanding philosophical thought, but he provides some much-needed
spiritual uplift in this post-9/11 world, and his work is accessible
to informed lay readers.
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