This is one for the books. In episode 104 of Overthink, Ellie and David consider what makes reading so rewarding, and, for many people today, so challenging! How did society shift toward inward silent reading and away from reading aloud in the Middle Ages? How have changes in teaching phonics and factors of classism, accessibility, and educational justice made it harder for the young to read? Why is reading philosophy so hard, and how can we increase our reading stamina?Check out the episode'...
Welcome to Overthink, the podcast where two philosophers talk about things we've enjoyed reading.
And occasionally stuff that we didn't enjoy so much.
I'm Dr.
Ellie Anderson.
And I'm Dr.
David Pena Guzman.
David, today we are talking about one of our favorite activities, reading.
Yeah.
Something that every academic is deeply passionate about, each of us, in our own way.
And I recently read Proust's Journey de lecture, which translates into days of reading.
And I have to say, it was a beautiful book about Proust's childhood where he describes the joy,
the intense joy that he got from reading as a kid.
And he talks about it in such a.
In a way that I really related to, because I was a nerd, you know, as a child, and I really enjoyed reading.
I used to go to the park with my books and be a nerd.
And Proust talks about reading as something that awakens the imagination of children
and as something that begins to develop a child's consciousness
and their sense of time and space and gives them a sense of belonging in the world.
And I think that's definitely how I think of reading, as a world building, nest, creating activity.
Yes.