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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Kurtz is a philosopher. Philosophers don't state the obvious and try to pass it off as an explanation of itself; the best ones take the obvious and make it as obscure as possible.
 Just kidding about that, although I do wonder about some of them!
Kurtz has a very clear and accessible style of writing. I can see how you might reach that conclusion having only read the publisher's press release, but you need to bear in mind that he didn't write that summation, and that part of the problem with writing blurbs for books of this type lies in the difficulty of encapsulating in a few words what the author has been expounding and elaborating upon for hundreds of pages; in the case of The Transcendental Temptation, 516 pages. In the book, Paul Kurtz does far more than simply state the obvious and try to pass it off as an explanation of itself. |
OK, I believe you
I hope you'll tell us more after you finish reading it!
Just finished
The High Window, and I am waiting confirmation of my payment on
Atonement by Ian McEwan, and
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. While Google Checkout does its thing, I'll continue reading
The Warrior's Apprentice.