{"id":58371,"date":"2013-08-23T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=58371"},"modified":"2013-08-26T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:54:25","slug":"what-were-loving-abcs-akrasia-antiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/23\/what-were-loving-abcs-akrasia-antiquity\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: ABCs, Akrasia, Antiquity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Confronting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Confronting.jpg\" alt=\"Confronting\" width=\"600\" height=\"493\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Confronting.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Confronting-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoving you isn\u2019t the right thing to do \/ How can I ever change the things that I feel?\u201c This sentiment\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ul-cZyuYq4\" target=\"_blank\">so memorably expressed<\/a> by Fleetwood Mac in 1977\u2014is as old as philosophy itself. The ancients struggled to explain <em>akrasia<\/em>, or why we love and do certain things against our better judgment. Who\u2019s in charge of our desires? As the NYU philosopher Jessica Moss points out in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philosophybites.com\/2013\/08\/jessica-moss-on-plato-and-aristotle-on-weakness-of-will.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Q&amp;A,<\/a>\u00a0the latest psychological research can sound a lot like Aristotle\u2019s <em>Ethics<\/em>. <strong>\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found the cover of Mary Beard\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0871407167\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0871407167&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Confronting the Classics<\/em><\/a>\u2014the torso of a marble Adonis that, at a cursory glance, looks sort of like an Abercrombie and Fitch bag<strong>\u2014<\/strong>so off-putting that I took it off. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Confronting-Classics-Traditions-Adventures-Innovations\/dp\/1781250480\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">The British iteration<\/a>, which features a bust of Athena in a pair of red sunglasses, is hardly more dignified.) But I understand that the publisher was grappling with the very same issue Beard, an eminent classicist, addresses in this book: how to engage with the classical tradition in a modern world. The book is both a survey of classical antiquity and a compelling argument for the classics\u2019 contemporary relevance; Beard bridles at those who champion the canon from a romanticized or ideological standpoint. Anyone who has read Beard\u2019s work in <em>The New York Review of Books <\/em>knows how funny and passionate a writer she is, and how convincing. (You can only imagine how much fun her Cambridge classes must be.) In her hands, the classics really do argue for themselves. So does this book. Sexy cover not required. <strong>\u2014Sadie O. Stein<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last week I went with my family to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/events\/exhibitions\/abc-it?hspace=216333\" target=\"_blank\">The ABC of It<\/a>,\u201d an exhibition of children\u2019s books at the New York Public Library. The oldest relic on display was an early eighteenth-century copy of \u201cThe New England Primer,\u201d in which A stands for Adam and B is for Bible. All the famous books are here, from Hans Christian Andersen to <i>Goodnight Moon <\/i>(with a life-size replica of the Great Green Room), but there are some wonderful curiosities as well. My favorite was a book from the early Soviet era\u2014when utopianism wasn\u2019t dead yet\u2014in which a robot guides a young boy through one of the new, futuristic, state-run factories. There\u2019s also an exhibit of <i>Struwwelpeter<\/i>, the most terrifying children\u2019s book I\u2019ve ever read, which suggests that it was intended as a parody (ah, German humor!). My daughter, who is still working on her ABCs, lasted about forty-five minutes, but I could have lingered for hours. <strong>\u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I reread <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenceportal.org\/?page_id=2790\" target=\"_blank\"><i>C\u0153ur de Lion<\/i><\/a>, a book-length epistolary love poem by Ariana Reines. This little book was self-published in 2007 (and later by Fence Books), between Reines\u2019s two other books of poems: <i>The Cow <\/i>(2006) and <i>Mercury <\/i>(2011), both of which seem to have received considerably more ink from reviewers. I first sat down to read <i>C\u0153ur de Lion<\/i> with no knowledge of Reines\u2019s work, but I <i>inhaled<\/i> the poem, and return to it often. It\u2019s obscenely elegant and elegantly obscene, and its realm of resonances is vast. <i>C\u0153ur de Lion<\/i>, while a \u201clove poem,\u201d dips in and out of love\u2014between direct address of a\u00a0lover and the contemplation of poetic address itself. Midway through the poem, Reines writes, \u201cFor words on a page \/ To have power\/ I had to be close \/ I had to be close\u201d\u2014just as the reader of <i>C\u0153ur de Lion<\/i> must (and will) be. <strong>\u2014Kate Rouhandeh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unable to sleep the other night, I reached for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0879512172\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0879512172&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Girl in Winter<\/em><\/a>, and ended up rereading the whole thing. (It is slim.) Philip Larkin\u2019s novel of wartime England is characteristically restrained and bracingly stoic, but conveys loneliness better than almost anything I have ever read. His protagonists crave human connection, but don\u2019t really expect love; whatever happens, you understand that they\u2019ll be essentially alone\u2013and that it\u2019s okay. People say the book is sad, but, to me, it\u2019s never tragic.\u00a0\u201cYet their passage was not saddening. Unsatisfied dreams rose and fell about them, crying out against their implacability, but in the end glad that such order, such destiny, existed. Against this knowledge, the heart, the will, and all that made for protest, could at last sleep.\u201d\u00a0<strong>\u2014S.O.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLoving you isn\u2019t the right thing to do \/ How can I ever change the things that I feel?\u201c This sentiment\u2014so memorably expressed by Fleetwood Mac in 1977\u2014is as old as philosophy itself. The ancients struggled to explain akrasia, or why we love and do certain things against our better judgment. 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