Jeremy R. Lent
Auteur van The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
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- Lent, Jeremy R.
- Geboortedatum
- 1960-08-05
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- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Woonplaatsen
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Opleiding
- Cambridge University, Emmanuel College (English Literature, BA/MA 1981)
University of Chicago, MBA, 1986 [1986] - Beroepen
- Previously an Internet entrepreneur and CEO; now a full-time writer
- Korte biografie
- Jeremy R. Lent was born in 1960 in London, England, where he grew up. He attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, where he attained his BA and MA in English Literature. He left England in 1981 to come to the United States, and married his wife, Molly, in 1983. He earned an MBA at the University of Chicago in 1986, and spent the next fifteen years raising his family and pursuing a career in business, founding an online financial services company called NextCard.
Requiem of the Human Soul is Jeremy's first novel.
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I can’t believe I finished this book. There is no original research, there are no original ideas, and it generalizes in the extreme.
I think there was one woman mentioned in the entire book.
About 3/4’s the way through the book I bothered to look up the author’s personal history and discovered:
- a BA in English Lit
- an MBA
- a career as a fintech entrepreneur ended by bankruptcy and a SEC investigation into stock manipulation.
The publisher probably took the name “The Patterning Instinct” to lure readers into a debate with Pinker’s “The Language Instinct.”
But Steven Pinker is a scientist. Jeremy Lent is not.
There is no real analysis of any human instinct. It’s more of a Bertrand Russell style survey of world philosophy, with Chinese philosophy getting the thumbs up.… (meer)
I think there was one woman mentioned in the entire book.
About 3/4’s the way through the book I bothered to look up the author’s personal history and discovered:
- a BA in English Lit
- an MBA
- a career as a fintech entrepreneur ended by bankruptcy and a SEC investigation into stock manipulation.
The publisher probably took the name “The Patterning Instinct” to lure readers into a debate with Pinker’s “The Language Instinct.”
But Steven Pinker is a scientist. Jeremy Lent is not.
There is no real analysis of any human instinct. It’s more of a Bertrand Russell style survey of world philosophy, with Chinese philosophy getting the thumbs up.… (meer)
This is the best book that I have read this year indeed, the best I have read for many a year.
I may well need to re-read it to get anywhere near to a full appreciation of the views expressed. Jeremy Lent's book offers a new perspective on the meaning of life. It is well reasoned and supported with ample evidence. It is hard to gain say the findings but please don't ask me to explain them, yet: get the book and learn for yourself - it'll be worth it, I promise.
I may well need to re-read it to get anywhere near to a full appreciation of the views expressed. Jeremy Lent's book offers a new perspective on the meaning of life. It is well reasoned and supported with ample evidence. It is hard to gain say the findings but please don't ask me to explain them, yet: get the book and learn for yourself - it'll be worth it, I promise.
Without a shadow of a doubt the most compelling book I've read all year! Will have to return later to write a proper review, but just too astounded for now.
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Il frappe par son ampleur, sa richesse, sa limpidité, sa capacité à synthétiser et à relier les différents modèles de pensée qui ont façonné l'histoire de l'humanité à travers les âges et les civilisations.
Jeremy Lent réussit un tour de force : restituer les marqueurs et principales évolutions de la pensée humaine, la sempiternelle quête de sens dans toute sa diversité et sa complexité... tout ceci dans une langue claire et vivante qui pique la curiosité, remue les neurones et ordonne les synapses.
Car il nous prend véritablement par la main pour nous inviter à un voyage qui remonte le temps et traverse le monde, On y croise de nombreux philosophes, penseurs, sages (et moins sages...!), théologiens...
Cet ouvrage très intelligent, toujours intelligible et jamais ennuyeux, est servi par une lecture impeccable.… (meer)