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Bob Hatch - The Duck Pond |
| Someone once
asked Freud what he took to be his favorite books. He responded with an
opinion about important and influential books. Students frequently ask
for a general reading list. What might an intelligent, educated person
have read during the summer, or perhaps in the course of a life?
Herewith are a few candidates for such a Summer Reading List.
This list began
during my high school years--slightly over a century ago. Thanks
to my teacher Orv Gilmore (with whom I have recently regained contact after
some thirty years--another e-mail junkie) this list had its first start
and continues to grow. With his help I hope we might continue to
update this modest list (I still have Orv's two-page mimeographed sheets,
one typed the other handwritten....). My list, alas, is in no particular
order. And I like it that way. I have scribbled down titles
at various times with different intentions. However disordered patterns
can be seen. Browse and choose what you like. If you are aghast
by missing candidates please e-me with your favorites. Alas, if you
aren't aghast by what is missing you probably won't find much of interest
here either.
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Plato, all; Republic; Timaeus; Meno; Apology, Phaedo, Crito Aristotle, all; Categories; Analysis; N. Ethics; On the Heavens Aquinas, Summa Theologica (abridged) Descartes, Meditations; Discourse on Method; Principles Pascal, Pensees Newton, selections by Thayer or Westfall & Cohen Voltaire, Louis XIV Darwin, Autobiography; Origin {1st edition}; Descent of Man Freud, Autobiography; Interpretation of Dreams; Civilization & Its Discontents; Einstein, selections Frankfort, Henri, Before Philosophy {Intellectual Adventure...} Santillana, G. de, Origins of Scientific Thought; Hamlet's Mill Dodds, E.R., The Greeks & the Irrational Knowles, David, Medieval stuff... Huizinga, J., The Waning of the Middle Ages Gilson, E., Reason & Revelation in the Middle Ages Lewis, C.S., The Discarded Image White, L., Medieval Technology & Social Change Yates, F., Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Lovejoy, A., The Great Chain of Being Burtt, E.A., The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Collingwood, R., The Idea of Nature Koyré, A., From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe Koestler, A., The Sleepwalkers Whitehead, A.N., Science and the Modern World Bury, J.B., The Idea of Progress Becker, C., Heavenly City of 18th C. Philosophers Eiseley, L., Darwin's Century Toulmin, S. & J. Goodfield, Discovery of Time Thomas, K., Man and the Natural World Mumford, L., Technics & Civilization Marx, K., Das Kapital Barnett, L., The Universe and Dr Einstein Cline, Barbara, Men Who Made a New Physics Kuhn, T.S., Structure of Scientific Revolutions Zukav, G., Dancing Wu Li Masters Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Trevor-Roper, H., A Hidden Life Schorske, C.E., Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Ginzburg, C., The Cheese and the Worms Davis, N.Z., Return of Martin Guerre Ariès, P., Hour of Our Death Braudel, F., The Mediterranean Strunk, W., & E.B. White, Elements of Style Cavell, Stanley, all Cavell, Marcia - latest Bernstein, Beyond Relativism and Objectivism Danto, A., Connections to the World Rorty, R., Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Aristotle, Categories; Analytics Leitch, V.B., Deconstructive Criticism Martin, M., Everyday Ethics Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, all
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Arts & Ideas
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