Re: The Case for Working With Your Hands
- From: "Ed Huntress" <huntres23@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:28:26 -0400
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On Mon, 25 May 2009 01:58:04 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
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On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:15:18 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
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The original essay from a few years back.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft
It's interesting to see how his thinking (or at least his writing) has
evolved. In that early article he treated the subject more like a
traditional philosophical question. In the NYT piece, it's more about
his
actual experience. He seems to have applied the idea of moving away from
the
abstraction and toward the individual, psychological effects.
Yes, interesting, though it doesn't necessarily indicate an evolution.
It could have simply been what mood he was in each day the articles
were written, oui?
I suspect the first one took months to write.
The book _didn't_? <g>
The book probably took the last three years. Either he recognized that he
had a potential book when he wrote the article, or a lot of people said
they'd like to see a book about it. That's how those things often go.
It has an academic tone to it,
as if it may be a spinoff from some academic paper he wrote in his
post-doctoral work. Note the credits to "help" from two people -- probably
grad slave...er, students, who researched the references for him.
Yeah, or friends off which he bounced his ideas.
Crawford has a few other articles floating around; as he said, he does
some
writing for the money.
I know a few people who do that. ;)
I wonder which form is more active in the actual book.
Yeah. I suspect the latter.
We shall see soon, ah reckon.
Well, DUH! I just saw the small print beneath the article in the New
Atlantis. "Matthew B. Crawford, "Shop Class as Soulcraft," The New
Atlantis, Number 13, Summer 2006, pp. 7-24." Both were excerpts. ;)
The _New Atlantis_ piece was published originally in the hard-copy
journal.
Yeah, I see that after rereading that little sidebar.
Either way, I'm ordering a copy. Matt's text reads a helluva lot
better than Persig's zen tome did to me.
It will be interesting. Persig wrote pretty well for someone who was
mentally disturbed, but his second book, which had something to do with
"quality," was as flat as a pancake.
He's 2-for-2 in my book.
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