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One of the most worthwhile things we have done in the belief section of this site is to run the How to Believe series on books and authors worth knowing. Now 10 of the earlier ones have been republished as Kindle eBooks. They can all be bought from here. These include Giles Fraser on Wittgenstein, and Jane Williams on Genesis. There are some of the most popular: Peter Thompson on Marx and Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard, and two really admirable ones on Donne and Milton, by Roz Kaveney and Jessica Martin. There is even an Orthodox Jewish take on the book of Job, by Alexander Goldberg, which was one of our happiest discoveries.One of the most worthwhile things we have done in the belief section of this site is to run the How to Believe series on books and authors worth knowing. Now 10 of the earlier ones have been republished as Kindle eBooks. They can all be bought from here. These include Giles Fraser on Wittgenstein, and Jane Williams on Genesis. There are some of the most popular: Peter Thompson on Marx and Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard, and two really admirable ones on Donne and Milton, by Roz Kaveney and Jessica Martin. There is even an Orthodox Jewish take on the book of Job, by Alexander Goldberg, which was one of our happiest discoveries.
I have always commissioned for this series on the basis that if you get someone to talk about the work they love the results will be worthwhile. This means that some of the authors and books I'd most like to know about have not yet been covered while in at least one case I had to write the series myself. But it is a distinguishing mark of all these little books that they are written with real emotion. What is being said matters, even when it is not autobiographical. They are books for people who know what it is to argue with an author in the watches of the night, even when he's been dead for 300 years – and not just to argue, but to lose the argument.I have always commissioned for this series on the basis that if you get someone to talk about the work they love the results will be worthwhile. This means that some of the authors and books I'd most like to know about have not yet been covered while in at least one case I had to write the series myself. But it is a distinguishing mark of all these little books that they are written with real emotion. What is being said matters, even when it is not autobiographical. They are books for people who know what it is to argue with an author in the watches of the night, even when he's been dead for 300 years – and not just to argue, but to lose the argument.
This requires a special kind of attention. That is why the series is called "How to Believe". The challenge is to enter into the thought-world of the author: to move into the drama and not just watch from the sidelines. You could not have better guides than these.This requires a special kind of attention. That is why the series is called "How to Believe". The challenge is to enter into the thought-world of the author: to move into the drama and not just watch from the sidelines. You could not have better guides than these.
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