The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.
Abraham, 63
accountability, 144–45
Aeneid (Virgil), 74–76, 83–85, 137
Agamemnon, 59–60
Aiken, John, 97
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women, 136–38
Alexander the Great, 65–67
Altare della Patria, 156–57
Angelou, Maya, 30–31
antifragility, 24
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” (Rilke), 20
Areopagitica (Milton), 52–55
Aristotle, 50
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) (Ovid), 108
art, 157
cave, 154–56
artifacts, 156
assumptions, 137–38
attentional commons, 13
Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale, 26, 131
Auden, W. H., 27
For the Time Being, 61–62
Augustus Caesar, 3
Austen, Jane, 123
Baggini, Julian, 46
bandwidth:
spatial, 99
temporal, 17, 19–20, 23, 27, 33, 40–41, 59, 60, 95–96
Bantu Men’s Social Centre, 92–93
Barbauld, Anna, 97
Baron’s War, 140–42
Bede, the Venerable, 154
Berry, Wendell, 144–45
Bingham, Caleb, The Columbian Orator, 96–98, 116
Black Chamber, 154–56
Blake, William, 73
Blue Pill, 106
Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The (Kundera), 18
Brand, Stewart, 40
breaking bread, 28–29
Cannadine, David, 30–31
Caro, Robert, 158
categories, 111
cave art, 154–56
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, 127, 128
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 79
Child That Books Built, The (Spufford), 145n
negative selection, 49–50, 70, 127
positive selection, 49–50, 70, 81, 127, 150
Christians, 60–61
Christians, The (Hnath), 131
Christie, Agatha, 94
Churchill, Winston, 68–70, 77, 78
Church of England, 53
Cicero, 69
Cincinnatus, 67–68
Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (Wills), 67–68
civilization, paradox of, 56
Clear Light of Day (Desai), 37–39, 41
Clementine Homilies, 28–29
climate change, 7–9
Columbian Orator, The (Bingham), 96–98, 116
Columbus Circle, 158
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 11
complications of perception, 133
conduct of life, 20
situational, 21–23
strategic, 21
traditional, 20–21
Connerton, Paul, 153
Constitution, U.S., 52
copybooks, 88–90
Courtenay, Thomas Peregrine, 121
Crawford, Matthew, 13
Cromwell, Henry, 122
Cromwell, Oliver, 122
Dante Alighieri, Inferno, 11, 139, 141–42
Darnton, Robert, 148
David Copperfield (Dickens), 73–74
Day, Jon, 32n
dead, the, 29
breaking bread with, 27, 29, 31, 80
Declaration of Independence, 52, 117
defaults, 49
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (Dewey), 20n
density:
informational, 150
personal, 19–20, 22, 23, 24, 63, 86, 95–96, 118, 133, 143, 145, 150, 151
depression, 22
Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day, 37–39, 41
Dickens, Charles:
David Copperfield, 73–74
Great Expectations, 78
A Tale of Two Cities, 78
Dickinson, Emily, 113
disenchanted world, 25
Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 128–33, 138
Doll’s House, Part 2, A (Hnath), 129–33
Douglass, Frederick, 46–47, 96–99
“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” 114–18
Edinburgh Review, 121
Eidolon, 106
Elias, Norbert, 5
English Civil War, 54, 55, 111, 122
essays, xii–xiii
Evenings at Home, or, The Juvenile Budget Opened (Aikin and Barbauld), 97
fan fiction, 82–83
Faulkner, William, 143
feminism, 81–82, 106, 109, 126, 133–34
First Contact, 99–100
foresight, pressure for, 5
For the Time Being (Auden), 61–62
Founders of the United States, 51–52, 54–55
Douglass on, 114–18
Fraenkel, Carlos, 110–11
French Revolution, 153
friendship, 73
Fukuyama, Francis, 15
future, 5, 40–41, 100, 144–46, 150, 151
futurists, 144
Gandalf, 146
Gay, Jason, 2
Generous Thinking (Fitzpatrick), 86, 87
George III, King, 67–68
Go-Between, The (Hartley), 6, 143
“Gods of the Copybook Headings, The” (Kipling), 88–90
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 19
Great Derangement, The: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Ghosh), 7–8
Great Expectations (Dickens), 78
Greece, ancient, 59–60, 67, 75
Greenblatt, Stephen, 29–30
Green movement, 143
Guardian, 75
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 144
Handmaid’s Tale, The (Atwood), 26, 131
Harari, Yuval Noah, 157
Haraway, Donna, 31–33, 36, 100
Heaney, Seamus, “Sandstone Keepsake,” 139–40, 142, 145
Henry III, King, 140
Henry of Almain, 141–42
Herodotus, 154
High Noon, 8
Hillis, Danny, 40
Hinduism, 61
H Is for Hawk (Macdonald), 35
history, 11–12, 17–18, 24–26, 43
end of, 15
progressive model of, 25, 26, 30n
see also past
Hitchens, Christopher, 25
Hnath, Lucas, 132
The Christians, 131
A Doll’s House, Part 2, 129–33
Hoare, Philip, 75
Hobbes, Thomas, 18
Homer, 74
Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return (Day), 32n
House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 33–34, 86–87
Housman, A. E., 76–79
How Modernity Forgets (Connerton), 153
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Pigliucci), 109–10
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management (Seneca and Romm), 107
Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll’s House, 128–33, 138
identity politics, 30
Iliad (Homer), 41–43, 44, 59, 60
immediacy of experience, 112, 151
individualism, 5
Inferno (Dante), 11, 139, 141–42
context of, 150
density of, 150
overload of, 12, 13, 15–16, 26, 113
triage and, 12–13, 16, 50, 113, 131
Instagram, 6
manosphere in, 105–9
Invention of Love, The (Stoppard), 76–78
Irving, Washington, 78
James, William, 17
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 84–85
Jerusalem, 157
Jesus, CEO (Jones), 30
Johnson, Samuel, 154
Jones, Laurie Beth, 30
Julie, or the New Heloise (Rousseau), 147–49
justice, 86
Kant, Immanuel, 46
Kenner, Hugh, 156
kin, kinship, 151
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 46
Kingsnorth, Paul, 154–56
Kundera, Milan, 18
Lamb, Mary, 91
Lao-tzu, 63
Lavinia (Le Guin), 83–87
Le Guin, Ursula K., 83–87
letter writing, 126
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 56
Lewis, C. S., 71
Lewis, Helen, 133–34
Life of Sir William Temple (Courtenay), 121
Lilla, Mark, 111–13
Little Women (Alcott), 136–38
Livy, 69
love, 150–51
love and marriage, 119–33
Lucretius, 29–30
Macaulay, Lord, 121
Macdonald, Helen, 35
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 63–64, 66–67, 69
Maecenas, 3
Magdalenians, 155–56
Mandela, Nelson, 92
Man in Full, A (Wolfe), 103–5
manosphere, 105–9
marginalized communities or groups, 31
market, marketing, 16–17, 22–23, 89, 145
marriage and love, 119–33
Matrix, The, 106
Max, D. T., 132
“Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, The” (Douglass), 114–18
meat, 47–48
Medici, Lorenzo de’, 64
Moby-Dick, 75
Mendelsohn, Daniel, 74–76
Miles, Laura Saetveit, 30n
Mill, John Stuart, 142
Milton, John, 52–55
Moby-Dick (Melville), 75
Montfort, Guy de, 139–42
Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 140–41
Montfort, Simon de, the Younger, 141
Morton, Brian, 33–34, 45, 64, 86
Moses, Robert, 157–58
Muslims, 60–61
mystery plays, 61
negative selection, 49–50, 70, 127
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 127, 128
Newton, Isaac, 50
New York Coliseum, 158
New York Review of Books, 48
Niaux Cave, 154–56
Notre-Dame de Paris, 12
Octavian, 3
offense, 72
see also defilement
On Anger (Seneca), 107
“On Man: Heir of All the Ages” (Chesterton), 69
opposition, 73
Orwell, George, 57n
Osborne, Dorothy, 121–28, 133, 138, 142
Osborne, Peter, 122
Ovid, 108
Oxford Women Writers series, 126
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, 91
paradox of civilization, 56
Paris, 153–54
Parry, Edward Abbott, 121
past, 8–9, 16–19, 23–26, 29, 36–37, 39–42, 145, 150–51
difference and, 29, 59–80, 95, 99
judgment of, 11–12, 44–58, 111–13, 143
see also history
personal density, 19–20, 22, 23, 24, 63, 86, 95–96, 118, 133, 143, 145, 150, 151
Peter, Saint, 27–28
Phillips, Brian, 113–14
Phillips, Ray E., 92
phones, 2
photographs, 154
Pigliucci, Massimo, 109–10
Plato, 3
Poggio Bracciolini, 29–30
Pont Notre-Dame, 153
Pope, Alexander, 94
positive selection, 49–50, 70, 81, 127, 150
pre-packaged bubble of the new, 17
present, 16–17, 23–26, 37, 145
presentism, 23–25, 45, 49, 59, 60, 99
“Prevention of Literature, The” (Orwell), 57n
Prince, The (Machiavelli), 64, 66
projecting vs. promising, 145
Protestants, 53
Pynchon, Thomas, 19
racism, 11, 34, 50, 51, 112–13
“Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading” (Schweickart), 81, 82
Red Pill, 106–9
responsibility and accountability, 144–45
Revolutionary War, 67–68
Rhys, Jean, 84–87
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 20
Risorgimento, 157
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 11
role models, 94
Rome, 156–57
ancient, 3–4, 6, 67, 68, 75–77, 156–57
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 121
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 147–49
Rowson, Martin, 11
rum distilleries, 56
Salon Noir, 154–56
“Sandstone Keepsake” (Heaney), 139–40, 142, 145
Schliemann, Heinrich, 59–60, 62, 70, 77
Schweickart, Patrocinio, 81, 82
selection:
positive, 49–50, 70, 81, 127, 150
self-help, 20
Seneca, 107
Shakespeare, William, 78–79
Romeo and Juliet, 121
The Taming of the Shrew, 44, 51, 71, 111
The Tempest, 79
Troilus and Cressida, 71
Shamyla, 134–37
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 93
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 98
Silas Marner (Eliot), 78
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 79
situational conduct of life, 21–23
slaves, slavery, 52, 96–98, 101, 108
Douglass and, 114–17
“Slow Tuesday Night” (Lafferty), 13–15, 149
Smith, Zadie, 93–94
social acceleration, 12–16, 19, 21–22, 26
Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois), 92, 95, 99
spatial bandwidth, 99
spirals, xiii
Spufford, Francis, 145
“Standing by Words” (Berry), 144–45
startling texts, 72
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Haraway), 31–33, 36, 100
Stephenson, Wen, 7
Red Pill, 106–9
Stoppard, Tom, 76–78
strategic conduct of life, 21
stubbornness, 145n
Swerve, The (Greenblatt), 29–30
Swift, Jonathan, 144
Sword in the Stone, The (White), 35
table fellowship, 27–43
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 24
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 78
Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb and Lamb), 91
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), 44, 51, 71, 111
Taoism, 61
Taylor, Charles, 24–25
teaching, xi–xii
Teachout, Terry, 113, 129, 131
Tell Freedom (Abrahams), 92
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 79
Temple, John, 122
Temple, William, 121–27
temporal bandwidth, 17, 19–20, 23, 27, 33, 40–41, 59, 60, 95–96, 133
theater of concurrence, 113–14, 129, 131, 132
This American Life, 134
see also future; past; present
Time Warner Center, 158
Tolkien, J. R. R., 79
traditional conduct of life, 20–21
travel, 40
triage, 12–13
informational, 12–13, 16, 50, 113, 131
Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss), 56
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 71
Undivided Past, The: Humanity Beyond Our Differences (Cannadine), 30–31
unknown, 113
Vance, Alyssa, 49–51
vegetarians and vegans, 47–48
Victor Emmanuel Monument, 156–57
Virgil, Aeneid, 74–76, 83–85, 137
Voss, Gerd-Günter, 20–21
Wall Street Journal, 2
Washington, George, 52, 55, 67–68
Waugh, Evelyn, 94
Wedgwood, C. V., 55, 62, 111–12, 151
Weil, Simone, 36–37, 39–42, 44, 100, 144
West, Benjamin, 67–68
Wharton, Edith, 33–34, 45, 50, 86–87
White, T. H., 35
Whitehead, Alfred North, 137
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys), 84–87
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 145n
Wills, Garry, 67–68
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 35
Wodehouse, P. G., 94
Wolfe, Tom, 103–5
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 46–47
Wordsworth, William, 79
World War I, 42
World War II, 41–43
Yeats, William Butler, xiii