Sunday, July 30, 2006
(10:23 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Used Bookstores
I've spent a lot of time in used bookstores lately, searching out the all-time greatest hits of American theology from mid-century. (Whitehead! Tillich! Niebuhr! HUZZAH!) During said searches, it seems to me that the three best-represented authors in used bookstores in Chicago are as follows:- Mircea Eliade
- Thomas Merton
- C. S. Lewis
Could this possibly be true? If so, what could account for it?
(I finally decided to pick up a book of Eliade's this weekend, The Sacred and the Profane. The store had a pile of twenty brand-new remaindered copies.)
(Yes, John Emerson, I know that Whitehead isn't a theologian. In fact, my advisor really liked Whitehead independently of his theological interests and was taken by surprise when a theological movement developed based on his work.)
