Jan 4, 2010
Sometimes the most remarkable books come from scholars working at the intersection of two seemingly unrelated fields. Unfettered by a single methodology or disciplinary mind-set, such thinkers can make the kind of discoveries that newly illuminate the human condition and newly perceive its constants and variables. Such a book is Jonathan Shay’s Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, a brilliant discussion of the American way of dealing with war’s losses that holds in a most provocative tension a reading of Homer’s The Iliad (c. 800 b.c.e.)...
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