Stephen Batchelor

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• Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises👍 Recommends

  …stephen batchelor recommending book on planetary governance and climate issues

  “One book I'd recommend is a book called Children of a Modest Star, subtitled Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises by Jonathan Blake and Niels Gilman, which is a wonderful reflection on how we need to imagine a form of governance that has executive authority beyond the nation state itself.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• The Second Body👍 Recommends

  …stephen batchelor recommending essay on extended embodied interconnectedness

  “And finally, a book called The Second Body by an English woman novelist called Daisy Hildyard. It's not a piece of fiction, it's an essay on what she calls The Second Body, which is a highly imaginative way of understanding that our physical body, which is sitting on this chair right here, is actually only a relatively small part of my wider body, which extends across the world in, let's say, the waste that I produce, the plastic bottles and so on that end up in the stomachs of whales or the working conditions of a garment factory worker in Bangladesh.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Work Like a Monk: How to Connect, Lead and Grow in a Noisy World👍 Recommends

  …stephen batchelor recommending buddhist book on work and mindfulness

  “Another book, and this is a Buddhist one, called Work Like a Monk, How to Connect, Lead and Grow in a Noisy World by my friend Shouke Matsumoto, who is a Pure Land priest in Japan who I've got to know recently. And it's simple, it's down to earth, and it's basically based around a hypothetical conversation between a business person living in the world and a priest living in a temple in Japan.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show