Here's a review of a great new book by Christopher Lane - Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness.
The opening lyrics to Andrew Bird's, A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left:
Over prescribed / under the mister / we had survived to / turn on the history channel / and ask our esteemed panel / why are we alive / and here's how they replied / you're what happens when two substances collide / and by all accounts you really should've died
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I see you disappeared from Facebook! Anyway, Daniel, I'd recommend Fromm's book, The Art of Loving. It's his classic work. It's 50 years old, and it's about love, but if those two things don't turn you off, then I think it's well worth reading. It doesn't take long to read, either. I read it in a couple of hours.
Fromm is great because: 1) like Rorty, he's a great writer; and 2) I think he's got a more or less correct worldview (existentialist, socialist, deist, etc.) with some genuinely insightful things to say about human behavior.
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