The Big Idea: Kari Sperring
Aug. 10th, 2012 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deborahjrossOur own ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
la_marquise_de_ spins a delightful and thought-provoking tale of Dumas, banned books, revolutionary ideas, and her new book, The Grass King's Concubine -- which I can hardly wait to get my hands on!
My thinking about banned books and their authors took me to some very strange places. It was important to me, throughout, that I stayed positive about that core idea about shared knowledge, and the positive effects of books. And yet my reading showed me that books could have some very strange effects on societies, as new knowledge emerged. We could all name books that have been revolutionary, from the Principia Mathematica to Das Kapital. But not every revolutionary book has a positive effect in every circumstance.
The Big Idea: Kari Sperring – Whatever
la_marquise_de_ spins a delightful and thought-provoking tale of Dumas, banned books, revolutionary ideas, and her new book, The Grass King's Concubine -- which I can hardly wait to get my hands on!My thinking about banned books and their authors took me to some very strange places. It was important to me, throughout, that I stayed positive about that core idea about shared knowledge, and the positive effects of books. And yet my reading showed me that books could have some very strange effects on societies, as new knowledge emerged. We could all name books that have been revolutionary, from the Principia Mathematica to Das Kapital. But not every revolutionary book has a positive effect in every circumstance.
The Big Idea: Kari Sperring – Whatever
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2012-08-10 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-11 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-10 07:42 pm (UTC)My favorite example of toxic books are those by Ayn Rand. We see far too many of her ideas in American politics today.
no subject
Date: 2012-08-11 04:31 pm (UTC)