> "The whole effort of the book," Greif says, "is to ask whether the reasons that we articulate for our most time-consuming daily habits are actually the reason

> "The whole effort of the book," Greif says, "is to ask whether the reasons that we articulate for our most time-consuming daily habits are actually the reasons we hold." This is a classical enough philosophical objective, and yet Greif’s focus on "daily habits" — his version of Emerson’s "low and familiar" — is also what makes his book so seemingly difficult to describe. The above paragraph seems a decent enough summary. I would agree with carsongross that the article is fairly meandering. I find the subject matter and the described methods of Mark Greif pretty interesting, though.