{"product_id":"second-thoughts-9781435713246","title":"Second Thoughts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Ostrofsky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays and short pieces in this collection were written over a period of eleven years while the author and his partner Carol Motuz ran Second Thoughts Bookstore on Sunnyside Avenue, in Old Ottawa South. The Gods at Play offers a provocative approach that rejects the notion of revelation, but takes religion seriously as myth. It features a partly (but only partly) tongue-in-cheek defense of polytheism. The Idea of the Self and At the Limits of Agency use perspectives from Zen and recent neuro-psychology to re-consider what it means to be a human person acting in the world. The last essay, Shalom Father, is a letter from the author to his deceased father, discussing their troubled relationship and attempting to make a posthumous peace. The short pieces (70 of them) are selected columns that Richard wrote for OSCAR, the neighborhood's community newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lulu.com","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611143389335,"sku":"9781435713246","price":2216.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781435713246.webp?v=1775069400","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/second-thoughts-9781435713246","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}