Reviews for Reclams Lexikon Der Deutschsprachigen Autoren

The average rating for Reclams Lexikon Der Deutschsprachigen Autoren based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-01 00:00:00 Valerie Davies Graphology - the study of handwriting and its relation to personality - is nonsense. There may be a little relation between handwriting and personality, but I believe this relation is so very thin that at least we shouldn't draw any simple conclusions, judging a person's personality based on her handwriting. The introduction to this book is partially falling for the graphologist fallacy. But that doesn't matter much, because the rest of the book is splendid: On every double page we are presented with a facsimile of a famous German language writer's handwriting - excerpts from manuscripts of works, letters, accidental writing. Every facsimile is accompanied with a well-informed text, elaborating the circumstances of the writing. And those notes on the facsimile never ever fall for the graphologist fallacy. So what is the use of seeing those writer's handwriting, if I don't believe in a simple psychological analogy? It's the aesthetics. It's not graphology, that makes this book interesting, it's calligraphy.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-09 00:00:00 Khalid Shamsher Erg mooie vertaling. Een kraakheldere uitleg van Plato's ideeënleer en verder bevielen mij ook de hoofdstukken waarin Held ingaat op de structuur van de samenleving in de Griekse Oudheid, met name de tegenstelling tussen oikos en polis, en hoe deze veranderde met de opkomst van het Romeinse Rijk. Met de analyse van het epicurisme als een stroming die onherroepelijk neigt naar een ascese ben ik het dan weer niet helemaal eens.