aaron
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Post by aaron on May 8, 2019 2:04:01 GMT
A thread to talk about what you're reading, or just read, or want to read. Just books in general, really. I probably will mostly use it for non-philosophy, but you all should use it however you like.
In addition to the usual array of philosophy books I'm at various stages of in the middle of, I'm also reading a couple books of poetry:
- Helen Gardner (ed.) - The Metaphysical Poets
- John Ashbery - And the Stars Were Shining
I'm reading The Metaphysical Poets because I've long suspected some of my own stuff might be downstream of that tradition (even if only unintentionally, since I had little firsthand experience of it before starting this volume). So far, John Donne and George Herbert are in a class far above anyone else in the volume, but those two alone make it worth the investment. Donne especially is just incredible.
The Ashbery I'm reading as part of a long-term trek I'm taking through all of his work. It comes a bit after his peak period (his 1975-1987 run, from Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror to April Galleons), and the last Ashbery I read, Hotel Lautréamont, made me worry he was starting to drop off quickly. But I've been really impressed, so far. At his best, his poems are little worlds in which it's hard to say just how everything fits together, but somehow the total effect created does make some kind of sense. And many of the poems here have done that. And then every so often he'll give you lines like this, which, wow:
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Post by Mātōnya on May 8, 2019 2:35:34 GMT
As soon as it comes in I will be reading "Gaismā" by Jana Egle. It's a collection of short stories. I read one of them that was published online and it got me very curious. Besides that, I've actually been writing a prose narrative for the past couple of months, so I haven't done much reading at all, unfortunately.
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Post by EB on May 8, 2019 3:12:45 GMT
I think the only 2 books that I have going right now that I've actually looked at recently are Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale by Bebra Satz and then a Very Short Intro to Causation. The first one I'm almost finished with, which I'm excited about because I've been trying to not start any more books until I'm done with that one and excited to start another. The second one, I only recently got to chapter 4 despite starting it months ago, but I only read it while at work during lunch breaks, if I feel like reading and it's quiet enough to do so, so extremely slow going.
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Post by unamusedmon on May 8, 2019 9:37:06 GMT
because i'm always shuffling between books and usually don't finish them - Abaddon's Gate by james covey
- How to be yourself by Ellen Hendriksen
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Post by EB on May 8, 2019 14:26:18 GMT
Finished the Satz book so now I can finally focus on The Non-Identity Problem & the Ethics of Future People by David Boonin  |
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Post by Mātōnya on May 8, 2019 14:31:33 GMT
EB, you should read the Konsmogeniā.
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Post by EB on May 8, 2019 14:39:17 GMT
I've read at least part of it |
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Post by Mātōnya on May 8, 2019 14:49:15 GMT
Well, that's a start! One day you will have to read the whole tetralogy. It isn't ready yet though. It's about three quarters finished.
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Mr. Worldwide
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Philosophy hobbyist. Anti-Gamer Caucus.
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Post by Mr. Worldwide on May 8, 2019 20:35:34 GMT
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
The first is basically a summary and analysis of contributing factors to the campus wars since 2015 regarding language policing, hecklers disrupting controversial speakers, and violence in rare instances. Halfway through it, so I've not gotten to his recommended solutions other than faculty and students being more supportive of viewpoint diversity (his term). Only a third through the second book, but Gray's writing is critical of the faith (his term) of atheists who believe in progress. He says it's not empirical--thus leaving the believers in a contradiction between their elevation of science and empiricism and their positive outlook on technological and moral progress--and the ancient Greeks were correct that humanity alternates between more savage and more civilized times. It's a caustic book thus far.
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teprw
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Post by teprw on May 9, 2019 13:21:27 GMT
I've been reading Robert Sapolsky's Behave: The Biology of Humans At Our Best and Worst for a while now; I reached the halfway point and have started going through the parts I read already a second time with a highlighter. Some of what it discusses is scientifically outdated, but overall I quite like it.
I started Susanne Langer's Philosophy in a New Key recently. I'm about a tenth of the way through it. I think I like where it's going so far, but I'll see.
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Post by unamusedmon on May 12, 2019 23:41:32 GMT
I started reading Michael Huemers dialogues on ethical vegetarianism today
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