On Being a Reader

GO TO: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982755953/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=c... This is a short talk on being a reader. It admonishes against the prevalent trend of being a "critical reader."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dpfCRYfUQ

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[9macrina9]

There are books I will never finish reading...and some poems by T.S. Elliot...re-reading your book is part of the deal......and I am typing to the author...isn't that amazing? Excellent, Corey thank you.

[Professoranton]

Hey Mary,

Thanks for the support. Wishing you all the best,

Corey

[dowdfather]

Also, a good critique doesn't necessarily destroy or otherwise tear down an author's arguments, it builds upon them and makes them stronger/better.

[MarxFTW]

David Harvey, who has taught Marx's "Capital" for 40 years, claims to still learn new things from it.

[Debordsbullet]

I don't disagree with the beginning quote, but I would warn one to be diligent in doing so...'Readings' of the Critique of Pure reason kind of turned me into a Kantian for a little while...yeashhh.

[natedaug1]

Good once again. Two things if you do the weakest argument that is the "straw man," fallacy, and also in philosophy there is the "principle of charity." These are both relevant, I think.

[FlaviaSantosbr]

@CosmicSisyphus What is is to be "true to the text" in a literary book?

[FlaviaSantosbr]

I don't quite agree with the fact we have to read as if the author were there. It seems as if we had to understand exactly what the author wanted us to understand when he wrote the book. The thing is: such thing really happens when we're reading a scientif book, once it is almost impossible to come up with very different interpretations in this kind of book. But, in a literary book, things are quite different. It doesn't have a definite message. We read literature from our subjectivity.

[MaLongTaiji]

in other words, "don't jump to conclusions"? that's how I would summarize your monologue. Some texts just may not be worth the time to re-read and be fully understood, that's the problem of writing in general. That's the part where the author has a responsibility to our critical sensibilities, if he or she is not satisfying them, then he looses the opportunity to convey a coherent message.

[skngd9293]

Good point. :)

[CosmicSisyphus]

I agree. Death of the Author does not exist in any works. Read it "as if the author is there" is a pretty good piece of advice. "Try to be true to the text"...

[Anarch0tec]

Fuck Yeah. One of the best authentic videos I've seen in a long time.