by David Bergen
And what a pleasure it was to let Morris loose, to allow him to stumble and grasp and to make mistakes and then bull his way back into the fullness of his life. He is a man who teeters, falls, and then rises again. This is Morris Schutt, forever hopeful.
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Further Reading
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What follows is a list of books that I read while working on The Matter with Morris (though I certainly did not complete all of them):
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 by Cicero (trans. Margaret R. Graver)
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno (trans. E.F.N. Jephcott)
My Secret Book by Francis Petrarch (trans. J.G. Nichols)
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller (trans. Reginald Snell)
Personal Christianity by Jacob Boehme
The City and Man by Leo Strauss
The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (trans. Allen Mandelbaum)
The Republic of Plato (trans. Allan Bloom; preface and interpretative essay by Allan Bloom)
The Symposium by Plato (trans. Seth Benardete) “What Is Political Philosophy?” by Leo Strauss
Also:
Bits and pieces of Reinhold Niebuhr Bits and pieces of Søren Kierkegaard
Copyright
The Matter with Morris
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The author acknowledges the assistance of the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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