This Little Books on Big Themes thing - there's nothing new under the sun.
There was a series like this in the 1930's, it may have been published by
Herbert Jenkins, a little series of small books by then current thinkers on
what now seem rather varied and whimsical topics. It being pre-google, one
is stuck with one's memory, a sieve full of holes, and I cant now remember
enough detail about these books, seen around in the eighties and nineties in
secondhand bookshops
Sally Evans
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: bullshit?
> Heh heh.
>
> That particular book has inspired a new series of smart little books from
> Melbourne University Press, Little Books on Big Themes. Germaine Greer On
> Rage, David Malouf On Experience, Gay Bilson On Indigestion, and others. I
> just read Barrie Kosky's On Ecstasy, which is wonderful (I uploaded a
> sort-of review of Barrie's at Theatre Notes yesterday -
> http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-ectsasy.html )
>
> Melbourne boy Barrie is, as his bio note says, one of the "most innovative
> and provocative theatre directors of his generation" and was just recently
> named as the new AD of the Komische Oper in Berlin).
>
> Alison
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Harry G Frankfurt's little book
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>> On Bullshit
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>> is said to be available in Finnish as
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>> Paskapuheesta
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