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   My name is Alan Jacobs. I am Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. My new book (well, you know, “my” book) is a critical edition of W. H. Auden’s 1955 collection of poems The Shield of Achilles.

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2. www.goodreads.com › author › listBooks by Alan Jacobs (Author of How to Think) - Goodreads

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   Alan Jacobs has 70 books on Goodreads with 57910 ratings. Alan Jacobs’s most popular book is How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds.

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   Jacobs' books include: Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind (Penguin Press, 2020) The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (Oxford, 2018) [9] How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (Currency, 2017) [10]

5. dancohen.org › 2017/10/25 › humility-and-perspectiveHumility and Perspective-Taking: A Review of Alan Jacobs’s ...

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   Oct 25, 2017 · Humility and Perspective-Taking: A Review of Alan Jacobs’s How to Think. In Alan Jacobs’s important new book How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, he locates thought within our social context and all of the complexities that situation involves: our desire to fit into our current group or an aspirational in-group, our repulsion ...

6. www.ethicsandculture.com › blog › 2018The Year of Our Lord 1943 - A Review — Ethics and Culture

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   Nov 20, 2018 · The title of Alan Jacobs’ most recent project, The Year of Our Lord 1943, sets the stage for the book but it does not limit the contents. To many readers, the subtitle offers some clue to the contents, but raises additional questions as well.

7. www.theatlantic.com › politics › archiveQ&A With Alan Jacobs, Author of 'How to Think' - The Atlantic

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   Oct 15, 2017 · In a new book, the writer Alan Jacobs looks at why it’s impossible for people who disagree to hold a civilized conversation.

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   How many books does Alan Jacobs have on Goodreads?

   • * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here. Alan Jacobs has 70 books on Goodreads with 57846 ratings. Alan Jacobs’s most popular book is How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds.

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   Who is Alan Jacobs?

   • Hello. My name is Alan Jacobs. I am Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. My new book (well, you know, “my” book) is a critical edition of W. H. Auden’s 1955 collection of poems The Shield of Achilles.

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   Is Alan Jacobs' book good?

   • According to James Davison Hunter, professor at University of Virginia and author of Culture Wars and To Change the World, Alan Jacobs' book is courageous, erudite, and deeply humane.

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   Should Jacobs be framed as a eulogy for pluralism?

   • Perhaps Jacobs’s work should have been framed as a eulogy for pluralism in the age of Twitter: how people’s snap judgments, generalizations, and feelings of repulsion toward certain ideas create a lot of noise and little understanding of people unlike themselves.

   Q&A With Alan Jacobs, Author of 'How to Think' - The Atlantic

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   Oct 17, 2017 · In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and...