Comments on: New Book Reviews and Working with One’s Hands http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2009/06/03/new-book-reviews-and-working-with-ones-hands/ All about philosophy resources at Harvard and beyond. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:26:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jason Pannone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2009/06/03/new-book-reviews-and-working-with-ones-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-4585 Jason Pannone Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:17:18 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/?p=679#comment-4585 Hi Greg, :-) That's a good point. Having finished the book last week, though, I have to say that Crawford does have some interesting insights about the nature of work and epistemology. Also, he does take pains to insist that he is not romanticizing mechanical labor over other forms of work. Definitely worth reading. Cheers, Jason Hi Greg,

:-) That’s a good point. Having finished the book last week, though, I have to say that Crawford does have some interesting insights about the nature of work and epistemology. Also, he does take pains to insist that he is not romanticizing mechanical labor over other forms of work. Definitely worth reading.

Cheers,

Jason

]]> By: Greg http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2009/06/03/new-book-reviews-and-working-with-ones-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-4580 Greg Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:31:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/?p=679#comment-4580 I read this article a few weeks back, and I found it slightly ironic that when the bike mechanic business is slow, Matthew admitted that he supplements his income with writing. Wait a minute: doesn't that mean that this impassioned argument for working with one's hands, which is a piece of *writing*, is in itself actually a symbol of the fact that Matthew's own handiwork just wasn't paying the bills? Just seemed a bit strange to me, and it made me feel like the author was perhaps more justifying his life choices to himself rather than revealing his secret happiness in life to his readers... Cheers, Greg I read this article a few weeks back, and I found it slightly ironic that when the bike mechanic business is slow, Matthew admitted that he supplements his income with writing.

Wait a minute: doesn’t that mean that this impassioned argument for working with one’s hands, which is a piece of *writing*, is in itself actually a symbol of the fact that Matthew’s own handiwork just wasn’t paying the bills?

Just seemed a bit strange to me, and it made me feel like the author was perhaps more justifying his life choices to himself rather than revealing his secret happiness in life to his readers…

Cheers,
Greg

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