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3 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“but I think that it's, you know, in his book, The Burnout Society, which was one of my favorite books, I think he diagnoses the problem very well.”
Why: It diagnoses the problem very well.
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
Guest on Conversations with TylerLuke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
“I'm going to go with Dostoevsky, though, because I think his book Demons diagnoses what can happen at a psychic and spiritual level when social contagion runs rampant.”
Why: Diagnoses what happens at a psychic and spiritual level when social contagion runs rampant.
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Guest on Conversations with TylerLuke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
“To the Northern Italian question, there's a great book on Italy if you haven't read it. It's called The Italians by Luigi Barzini. Barzini, yeah. Barzini in the 60s. It's just a fantastic book.”
Why: It is just a fantastic book for understanding Italian culture.
The Italians by Luigi Giorgio Barzini
Guest on Conversations with TylerLuke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion