- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
- St. Augustine, Confessions
- Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Grant Bartley, The Metarevolution
- Manfred Barthel, What the Bible Really Says (M. Howson, trans.)
- Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of My Own
- Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers
- Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
- Mikhail Boulgakov, The Master and Margarita
- Cheshire Calhoun, Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet
- Anne Carson
- Dante, Divine Comedy
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Michael Dummett, The Nature and Future of Philosophy
- Ben Dupré, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know
- David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
- William Faulkner, Light in August
- Philippa Foot, Natural Goodness
- Miranda Fricker, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
- Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
- Gregory of Nyssa, Song of Songs (15 homilies)
- Robert Harris, Imperium
- Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
- Shelley Jackson, Melancholy of Anatomy
- Derrick Jensen
- Charles Johnson, Oxherdering Tale
- Donald Kalish & Richard Montague, Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning
- Rae Langton, Sexual Solipsism
- Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics
- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
- Cormac McCarthy
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- Thomas Nagel, Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
- Uma Narayan, Dislocating Cultures
- Margueritte de Navarre, The Heptameron
- Nicholas of Cusa
- The Layman on Wisdom (Idiota de sapientia)
- The Game of Spheres (De Ludo Globi)
- Novalis, The Novices of Sais
- José Ortega-y-Gasset, Meditations on Quixote
- Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety
- Pascal, De l’esprit geometrique
- Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
- Plato, Phaedrus and Symposium
- Graham Priest, Beyond The Limits of Thought
- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
- Gianni Rodari, The Grammar of Fantasy (J. Zipes, trans.)
- Carl Sagan, Varieties of Scientific Experience
- Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
- Arkadi and Boris Strugatski, Monday Begins on Saturday
- Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish
- Zadie Smith, On Beauty
- Jordan Howard Sobel, Logic and Theism: Arguments for and Against Beliefs in God
- Elliott Sober, Evidence and Evolution
- Tamlar Sommers, A Very Bad Wizard
- Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
- Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters
- Paul Valéry, "Leonardo and the Philosophers" in Selected Writings
- Lorenzo Valla, "Of the True and False Good" (De Voluptate) in The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology
- David Wojnarovicz
- Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
- Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought
- Santiago Zabala, The Remains of Being
NihilismAbsurdism.Blogspot.com
"The Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any.
Nihilism : from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life
Nihilism : from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life
Friday, May 20, 2011
Suggested Summer Reading List
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