In this week's round-up, we talk to Mary C Flannery about the continuing attraction of the irrepressible Wife of Bath; and mystery writer Nicola Upson on the unconventional life and unforgettable work of Josephine Tey.
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This week’s episode in our series on the great essays and great essayists is about Simone Weil’s ‘Human Personality’ (1943). Written shortly before her death aged just 34, it is an uncompromising repudiation of the building blocks of modern life: democracy, rights, personal identity, scientific progress – all these are rejected. What does Weil have to put in their place? The answer is radical and surprising.
Read ‘Human Personality’ here
For more on Weil from the LRB archive:
‘If we take Weil as seriously as she took herself, our nice lives will fall apart.’
Alan Bennett on Kafka and Weil
‘Many parents, one imagines, would echo the words of Madame Weil, the mother of Simone Weil, a child every bit as trying as Kafka must have been. Questioned about her pride in the posthumous fame of her ascetic daughter, Madame Weil said: “Oh! How much I would have preferred her to be happy.”’
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O Brasil não tem dados sobre o número de crianças que são devolvidas ao sistema após serem formalmente adotadas. Mas isso acontece. E quando acontece, gera traumas profundos nas crianças e adolescentes.
Além disso, para a Justiça brasileira, não existe diferença entre filhos adotivos e filhos biológicos. Portanto, nos casos em que pais devolvem crianças adotadas após o processo de adoção, esses pais podem sofrer consequências judiciais.
Eles podem ter de pagar pensão alimentícia além de reparação por danos morais, por exemplo.
Mergulhe mais fundo
Adotei posso devolver (link para compra)
Abandono de filhos adotivos (link para compra)
Entrevistados do episódio
Autora do livro “Adotei, posso devolver?”
Advogado especialista no direito de crianças e adolescentes, coautor do livro Abandono de filhos adotivos e titular do perfil de Instagram Direito da Criança em Pauta.
Anna Christina Cardoso de Mello
Psicóloga forense, especialista em questões relacionadas a crianças e adolescentes, autora do livro “O jovem e seus direitos”.
Ficha técnica do episódio
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Apoio de produção: Ana Carolina Maciel.
Apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini.
In the second of our summer round-ups, we revisit Richard Smyth discussing the life and the work of the naturalist Ronald Blythe; and Lucasta Miller on an extraordinary collection of commonplace books.
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This week David discusses George Orwell’s ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ (1941), his great wartime essay about what it does – and doesn’t – mean to be English. How did the English manage to resist fascism? How are the English going to defeat fascism? These were two different questions with two very different answers: hypocrisy and socialism. David takes the story from there to Brexit and back again.
For more on Orwell from the LRB:
Samuel Hynes on Orwell and politics
‘He was not, in fact, really a political thinker at all: he had no ideology, he proposed no plan of political action, and he was never able to relate himself comfortably to any political party.’
Julian Symons on Orwell and fame
‘If George Orwell had died in 1939 he would be recorded in literary histories of the period as an interesting maverick who wrote some not very successful novels.’
Terry Eagleton on Orwell and experience
‘Orwell detested those, mostly on the left, who theorised about situations without having experienced them, a common empiricist prejudice. There is no need to have your legs chopped off to sympathise with the legless.’
More from the History of Ideas:
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Ouça a segunda parte da entrevista histórica de 1976 de Clarice Lispector para Marina Colasanti, Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna e João Salgueiro. O biógrafo Benjamin Moser e a editora Mariana Delfini ainda comentam os bastidores. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
In the first of our seasonal round-ups, we look back at Stephen Marche on the agonies of the writing life; and Nat Segnit dives into Adam Gopnik's survey of mastery.
'On writing and failure: Or, the peculiar perseverance required to
endure the life of a writer', by Stephen Marche
'The real work: On the mystery of mastery', by Adam Gopnik
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This week our history of the great essays and great essayists reaches the twentieth century and Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929). David discusses how an essay on the conditions for women writing fiction ends up being about so much else besides: anger, power, sex, modernity, independence and transcendence. And how, despite all that, it still manages to be as fresh and funny as anything written since.
Read more on Virginia Woolf in the LRB:
Jacqueline Rose on Woolf and madness
‘It is, one might say, a central paradox of modern family life that its members are required to mould themselves in each other’s image and yet to know, as separate individuals or egos, exactly who they are.’
Gillian Beer on Woolf and reality
‘The “real world” for Virginia Woolf was not solely the liberal humanist world of personal and social relationships: it was the hauntingly difficult world of Einsteinian physics and Wittgenstein’s private languages.’
Rosemary Hill on Woolf and domesticity
‘Woolf, who had once found it humiliating to do her own shopping, spent the last morning of her life dusting with Louie, before she put her duster down and went to drown herself.’
John Bayley on Woolf and writing
‘For Virginia Woolf wish-fulfilment was in words themselves, that protected her from herself and from society.’
Listen to David’s History of Ideas episode about Max Weber’s ‘The Profession and Vocation of Politics’.
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This week, Kate Hext on women who have run or climbed their way through the world, despite efforts to stop them; and Alice Robb thinks about how - and why - we tell stories through dance.
'In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors', by Rachel Hewitt
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This week David talks to American historian Gary Gerstle about the shape-shifting journey of the US Republican Party, from the Civil War to the battles of today. How did the party of the North become the party of the South? When did the war party lose its appetite for war? Why does an organisation born out of anti-Catholicism now see its mission as to get Catholics onto the Supreme Court? And what could finally break the party apart?
Gary Gerstle’s latest book is The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order.
For more on the Great Abortion Switcheroo of the 1970s.
Listen again to David’s episode on Hume and American default.
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Celebramos os 4 anos do 451 MHz com a entrevista histórica de 1976 de Clarice Lispector para Marina Colasanti, Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna e João Salgueiro. No final, o biógrafo Benjamin Moser e a editora Mariana Delfini comentam os bastidores. Ouça a segunda parte em 28 de julho. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, cycling commentator par excellence Ned Boulting on the Tour de France of a century ago; and Peter Parker delves into the many faces of the self-styled 'Master' playwright, Noel Coward.
'1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession', by Ned Boulting
'Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward', by Oliver Soden
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