{"product_id":"where-shall-wisdom-be-found-isbn-9781594481383","title":"Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critical novel about the ways in which we absorb various forms of wisdom from the literature we consume, from the author \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecalls “the most influential critic of the last quarter-century.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes the reader from the Bible through the twentieth century, searching for the ways literature can inform lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, Johnson and Goethe, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Montaigne and Bacon, Emerson and Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, and finally discussions of the Gospel of Thomas and St. Augustine, Bloom distills the various—and even contrary—forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking.\"[A] touching work.\" -\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In his intricate discussion of each great writer, Bloom offers the rich perceptions of a scholar drawing on the whole of a long and thoughtful career.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Another work of uncompromised literary analysis, thought, and feeling, from the mind of Bloom: towering, real, invaluable.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bloom remains engaging enough to make you want to read him, argue with him and learn from him.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include \u003ci\u003eThe Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,The Western Canon,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe American Religion\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy’s Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes International Prize of Mexico. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302559305957,"sku":"NP9781594481383","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594481383.jpg?v=1767744049","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/where-shall-wisdom-be-found-isbn-9781594481383","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}