Episode · EconTalk · 2021-01-25
Russ Roberts & Scott Newstok: books mentioned on EconTalk
Scott Newstok on How to Think Like Shakespeare
Author Scott Newstok of Rhodes College talks about his book, How to Think Like Shakespeare, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Newstok draws on Shakespeare and other great writers and thinkers to explore the nature of education and the life well-lived.
Scott Newstok discussed Ovid's Metamorphoses and On copia of words and ideas (De utraque verborem [sic] ac rerum copia) by Desiderius Erasmus. Russ Roberts discussed How to Think Like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok, Aspiration by Agnes Callard, and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
Discussed“because we will be looking at his sources so we'll be looking at avid's metamorphosis for the story of pyramus and thisbe”
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How to Think Like Shakespeare
Discussed“so i'm gonna say just a little something about your book it's um short and sweet it's lovely uh in print form it's a beautiful little book it's not so nice on the kindle which you've told me beforehand”
Where to get it
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Aspiration
Aspiration by Agnes Callard is a philosophical work examining how individuals strive to acquire values and transform their desires through deliberate self-creation.
Discussed“i'm thinking about when agnes callard was here talking about her book aspiration she talked about i think she said that you know reading is about learning how”
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Arcadia
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard is a complex modern play that explores the intersections of time, mathematics, literature, and the persistent human tension between extrinsic and intrinsic perspectives.
Discussed“it's a wonderful quote from tom stoppard in arcadia which i'm not gonna try to give”
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On copia of words and ideas (De utraque verborem [sic] ac rerum copia)
Discussed“there's a great example that i bring up in the book by the humanist educator um erasmus from his wonderful book of copia or of copiousness”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is the author of how to think like shakespeare lessons from a renaissance education which is our topic for today”
“my guest today has been scott newstock his book is how to think like shakespeare”