The Rabbit Between Us

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By Victor Menza

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The Rabbit Between Us by Victor Menza is a touching memoir that delves into the author's personal journey of self-discovery and healing. It explores the complex relationships and pivotal experiences that shape his life, weaving together a narrative of resilience, love, and growth. This biography offers a profound insight into the challenges and triumphs that define Victor's path.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy heartfelt and thought-provoking stories that delve into personal growth and family dynamics. Victor Menza's memoir captures intimate moments and reflections, offering readers a deep understanding of resilience and the ties that bind us. You'll find a rich narrative that explores the complexity of human relationships with sincerity and warmth.

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One morning as they parted, Victor Menza’s daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder why rabbits had been their symbol of visitation: “How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence?”

Through philosophy, history, education, art, and personal musing on everyday uncanny experiences, Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love. Menza considers human nature and how we are undone by separation—both from each other and from our childhood selves. Surprising allies in these non-traditional philosophical wanderings include Ludwig Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Bowen, Albert Murray, Beatrix Potter, Donald Winnicott, Sterling Stuckey, and Lev Vygotsky.

Menza examines what symbols are and how they work, the value of dialect, and the subversive lesson of animal fables, alongside his thoughts on language learning, memory, and slavery. Only now did he see that he’d taken to Brer Rabbit early on. Just as the Uncle Remus tales displayed the small hero’s virtues in warm dialogues, The Rabbit Between Us shows we abound in talents and moves when we “lean like Socrates did to the Aesop in us.” Gentle and political at once, this unique book will appeal to any intellectually curious reader.

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The Rabbit Between Us by Victor Menza, praised by Peter Mose in I Remember My Teacher, paints Menza as a transformative figure whose brilliance profoundly impacted those around him. Through his teaching, Menza captivated students and commanded respect by imparting significant wisdom that demanded their full attention.

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ISBN: 9781803091983

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 6.0mm

Height: 9.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 172

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Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Victor Menza

About the Author

Raised in Buffalo, New York, Victor Menza (1944–2013) attended the University at Buffalo and then Johns Hopkins as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow for a PhD in philosophy. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities award for his teaching at Dartmouth College and writing on Plato. He left to work in prose and in practice outside the academy.

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