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Sissela Bok, born 2 December 1934, is a Swedish-born philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She...


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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and...


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03/29/1998: 876 words, approx. 3 pages
Sissela Bok's latest book, Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment, will be published next month. The author of Secrets and Lying, Bok, 63, has taught philosophy at Harvard and Brandeis. Are there any benefits from media violence? There's tremendous financial benefit to the producers....
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Her mother's story Sissela Bok draws a perceptive portrait of a woman who acted on her passions in `Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir'
05/29/1991: 2,390 words, approx. 8 pages
In 1949, after 25 years of marriage to a brilliant but difficult and egocentric man, Alva Myrdal decided it was time to get on with her life. She was offered a job at the United Nations in New York by Secretary General Trygve Lie....
 


 

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