Sounds like a nice topic. The staff of oedipus had a lot of insights taking examples from mythology. Now though, I’m reading one called the Aesthetics of Wine.
Some Harold Bloom.
King Lear
The Odyssey - I make it a point to reread this every year.
[tab]If some Nietzscheans are interested, let me know.
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Right now I am not reading a book, but a text of a web forum called “I LOVE PHILOSOPHY”. if I will again have time to read , I will go on with the reading of a book with the title “Zeit und Tage” (“Time and Days”) by Peter Sloterdijk.
The diary of Samuel Pepys
Nature and Madness, and Thinking Animals by Paul Shepard
I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter
11/22/63
by Stephen King
Writing History in the Global Era, by Lynn Hunt, Norton
LABYRINTHS OF REASON
By: William Poundstone
Yummy!
Also, THE LAST THEORUM
By: Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl.
Life Ascending: The Ten Greatest Inventions of Evolution, by Nick Lane
“The genesis of twentieth century philosophy” by Harry Prosch.
Waiting for my new glasses so I can finish the dam thing and get on with my list
of 200 other books I want to get through.
Kropotkin
POWER AND INNOCENCE ~ A Search for the Sources of Violence
Rollo May
Robert Anton Wilson, The Cosmic Trigger
I just finished Laughter is Better Than Communism by Andrew Heaton. A very funny book, including great commentary on multiple political thingys. Only $4 ! (I love the comedian that wrote it and wish to promote him as far and wide as possible, so I can see him in more places and things.)
I am now getting back to Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastards, Book 2) by Scott Lynch which is also a great book all about Con men in a fantasy setting.
I’m about to pick up Basic Economics, 5th edition by Thomas-Sowell Probably the closest thing I have to a bible… (I’ve read the 4th ed a couple of times.) I’ve got the link to an interview for the book in my sig.
Joseph heller, ‘Catch 22’
Carlos Castaneda
The Power of Silence
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The Eagle’s Gift ~ Further Lessons of don Juan
Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
‘I surf, therefore I am a philosophy of surfing’ Peter Kreeft
Just finished The Double - Dostoevsky.
Anyone care to tell me what it was about?!!
[b]The Great Courses
Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Ed.
Parts 1 and 2
Philosophy & Intellectual History
Audiobooks[/b]
That’s what I’m talking about right there! Hell yeah!
I’m reading Beowulf, the Seamus Heaney translation; the one in archaic English is barely intelligible to me.