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Daniel Akst


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A native New Yorker, Daniel Akst is a well-known journalist who has worked at the LA Times and Wall Street Journal and now writes a monthly column in the Sunday New York Times. He also writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal culture pages, and has appeared in many other publications, including American Heritage, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Civilization, Technology Review, the Washington Monthly, and on both public radio and television. His first book, Wonder Boy (Scribners), chronicled the eye-popping ZZZZ Best fraud perpetrated by teenage entrepreneur Barry Minkow, and was named one of the 10 best of 1990 by Business Week. He is also the author of The Webster Chronicle published by BlueHen in October 2001.

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Average rating: 3.57 · 551 ratings · 113 reviews · 16 distinct worksSimilar authors
We Have Met the Enemy: Self...

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St. Burl's Obituary

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War By Other Means: The Pac...

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Wonder Boy: Barry Minkow--T...

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The Webster Chronicle

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Temptation

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“Senso di colpa e vergogna sono considerati gemelli, ma, dei due, il fratello buono è il primo. E lo è perché si concentra sulle nostre azioni, per le quali possiamo provare rimorso e rimpianto. Chi si sente in colpa per qualcosa che ha commesso prova il desiderio di scusarsi o comunque di cancellare o correggere il gesto che gli ha ispirato quei sentimenti.

La vergogna, invece, non è provocata dalle nostre azioni, ma da ciò che siamo. Chi si vergogna si sente indegno: non prova orrore per quello ha fatto, ma per se stesso. Il senso di colpa chiede di modificare un comportamento, la vergogna chiede di modificare una parte del nostro Io. La «vergogna che soffoca l’anima», come la definì Coleridge, è una cosa davvero triste: è più dolorosa della colpa e chi ne soffre ha difficoltà a parlarne. Significa sentirsi meschino, inferiore e disapprovato dagli altri. Il senso di colpa vuol fare ammenda, la vergogna vuol nascondersi.”
Daniel Akst, Elogio dell'autodisciplina: Il controllo di sé nell’era dell’eccesso

“Take away religion and you seem to create a vacuum that shopping and the like rush to fill. Spiritualism, which is flourishing, isn’t the same thing; it doesn’t forbid much of anything except perhaps self-awareness. And religious practice without genuine faith doesn’t seem to work either; apparently rituals have to be faith based, like any other placebo, to have any benefit.”
Daniel Akst, Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess

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