• Maw
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    To be honest I thought Dune wasn't very good.
  • 180 Proof
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    Grading on a curve, that's generous. (re: movie, not novel)
  • Maw
    2.7k
    Novel actually :naughty:
  • Streetlight
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    Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern (Finally getting around to this. It's probably been on my shelf for like a decade now, it's pages yellowed from when I first bought it, but better late than never).
    +
    Samantha Bankston - Deleuze and Becoming
    German Eduardo Primera - The Political Ontology of Giorgio Agamben: Signatures of Life and Power
  • praxis
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    Novel actuallyMaw

    For sci-fi? It definitely stands out in that genre.
  • Maw
    2.7k
    I found the characters are mostly one dimensional and the writing sub-par, but it's nevertheless interesting in it's novelty, imagination, and by consequence, influence in the genre.
  • _db
    3.6k
    I loved Dune.

    In the Presence of Schopenhauer, Michel Houellebecq, recently published in English.
  • 180 Proof
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    Quite interested in both philosopher and novelist. Your thoughts on the book will be appreciated.
  • Gus Lamarch
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    Philosophy of Redemption (1876) - Philipp Mainlander
  • _db
    3.6k
    I'll prolly make a post on the book once I finish it.
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    more september readings:

    Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger
    I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche, Sue Prideaux
  • Pantagruel
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    The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
  • Maw
    2.7k
    The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
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    3.4k
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Laurence SternePantagruel

    Could not finish it. :(
  • Pantagruel
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    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
    — Pantagruel

    Could not finish it. :(
    Olivier5

    Not your cup of tea?
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    A bit of a mouthful, language wise. But these things are aquired tastes, maybe I should have kept up with the style a little more to get used to it.
  • praxis
    6.5k
    Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, by Radley Balko
  • Pantagruel
    3.4k

    Yes, it takes some getting used to.

    Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy by Jurgen Habermas
  • Streetlight
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    Kōjin Karatani - Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
    David Lapoujade - Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
    Giorgio Agamben - Creation and Anarchy
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    october readings:

    There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire, Michael Gaddis

    :up:

    The Awkward Black Man, Walter Mosley

    still reading:

    God, Existence, and Fictional Objects: The Case for Meinongian Theism, John-Mark L. Miravalle
    • Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty

    re-reading:

    Beatlebone, Kevin Barry
    In Tune, Mark Lewison
    (in honor of what would have been John Lennon's 80th birthday today)
  • Pantagruel
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    In Tune, Mark Lewison180 Proof

    :up:
  • Streetlight
    9.1k
    Reza Negarestani - Intelligence and Spirit

    Preparing to have my mind blown to pieces.
  • Saphsin
    383
    Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry - Edited by Jeffrey Kovac, Michael Weisberg

    I've put Chemistry completely on the back burner with respect to philosophy of science so I'm trying to mitigate my ignorance of this.
  • Kevin
    86
    Shot in the dark question here: anyone read/handled the 800 page Routledge paperback edition of Popper's Open Society? If so, at 800 pages for a paperback, would you recommend it or recommend looking for older split 2-volume editions?
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    I have read the Open Society in two volumes. As it was published I think?

    You can always cut the 800 pages volume in two halves, if that helps.
  • Maw
    2.7k
    The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton
    Male Fantasies V1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History by Klaus Theweleit
  • Streetlight
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    9ix9694iv3ch85ky.jpg

    Belated birthday present to myself just arrived :grin:
  • _db
    3.6k
    The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert PaxtonMaw

    No shit! I just started re-reading this.
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