Aaron James (1)
Autor/a de Assholes: A Theory
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Sobre l'autor
Aaron James is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.
Obres de Aaron James
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- James, Aaron
- Nom oficial
- James, Aaron John
- Altres noms
- James, Aaron J.
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Educació
- Harvard University (Ph.D., 2001)
- Professions
- university professor (assoc. prof. of philosophy, Univ. of Calif. at Irvine)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 4
- Membres
- 760
- Popularitat
- #33,470
- Valoració
- 3.1
- Ressenyes
- 20
- ISBN
- 29
- Llengües
- 4
In any case, I assume for everyone reading this, life has afforded them plenty of opportunity to deal with the personality type this tome's title defines. Chances are good, moreover, that readers of this book have on more than one occasion used this, uh, term of art, either in casual conversation or in abject frustration, to designate an offensive person in their midst.
Mr. James' philosophical project in this book--and he has his tongue at least partially in his cheek as he carries this out--is to determine the fundamental characteristics of a**holes. That accomplished, he continues in a discursive analysis about why the a**hole is so offensive that we find it necessary to, well, freight him or her with such an unfortunately evocative noun.
Needless to say, the book's title makes appearances as many if not most of the parts of speech, sometimes with suffixes--e.g. "a**holish," an adjective I favor in moments of irritation. In some respects, the repetition of the word distracts from, but doesn't attenuate, the force of Mr. James' argument. I did find myself wondering if the book would convey more gravitas if a different term, something perhaps more clinical or scholarly, were used to describe this type of challenging personality.
However, to reiterate, this is a work of pop philosophy (interestingly, if you search the term on the internet, one of the first things to pop up is the Wikipedia entry on "pseudophilosophy"). So the title is probably apt. I don't mean, in emphasizing this relatively new genre--since I don't think professional philosophers would like hearing it called a "new scholarly field"--to diminish this book. There is serious analysis as work here, and Mr. James is a fine stylist who conveys complicated ideas without trivializing them. Anyone who deals with difficult people (as Mr. James points out several times, a**holes are everywhere) will probably find salubrious the stoic approach Mr. James counsels in dealing with them.… (més)