Just finished The Upanishads

Currently:

The Bhagavad Gita
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis (re-reading)
The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton (re-reading)
Exploring Philosophy - compiled by Steven M. Cahn (Brooklyn stoop find!)
Dynamics of Faith - Paul Tillich
The Gay Science - Nietzsche

Does anyone have access to this book please? Or do you know where it can be purchased for much cheaper? Please PM me.

https://www.amazon.com/Kierkegaard-Nietzsche-Acceptance-Philosophy-Religion/dp/0312173474

EDIT: Got it, thank you, you know who you are! (Y)

Wendy Brown - Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
Raymond Geuss - Politics and the Imagination (new copy :D )

Weltschmerz by Frederick C. Beiser

Just finished 'Le chair et le sang' (Flesh and Blood) by Francois Mauriac.
It was a difficult read, but rewarding towards the end. It captured the ambiguity and uncertainty of human relationships really well.

It felt somewhat Existentialist to me. But it was written in 1926, thus pre-dating Existentialism. — andrewk

I read Viper's Tangle years ago. It's a great book. Mauriac was friends with several French Existentialists, including Gabriel Marcel.

Marcel joined the ranks of “Christian existentialists” while working as the drama critic for L’Europe nouvelle. Following a favorable review of a work by François Mauriac, Marcel received a note from the author. “Why are you not one of us?” Mauriac asked. Not long after, Marcel joined the Catholic Church and would remain a defender of faith.

Mauriac wrote to Marcel in 1929.

Marcel's philosophy was always preoccupied with the religious dimension of life, but his upbringing had been religiously agnostic (uncertain as to whether one can really know that God exists), and he was not formally a believer. In 1929, however, an open letter from the distinguished French Catholic writer François Mauriac challenged Marcel to admit that his views suggested a belief in God. His subsequent conversion to Catholicism gave a new dimension to certain aspects of his philosophy. But he remained a strikingly independent thinker whose ideas were formed before his conversion—and as such could be regarded as important indicators of certain Godly aspects of the human experience. Marcel became a leader in French Catholic intellectual circles, and his Paris home was the locale for stimulating discussion among leading European intellectuals of all persuasions.

I've been reading Max Jammer's (love that name!) Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology.

Man, you guys read some really heavy stuff!

I'm currently reading The Broken Eye, by Brent Weeks. :)

Melinda Cooper - Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
Ivan Ascher - Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction

Jose Ortega Y Gasset - History as a System

David Benatar - The Human Predicament

Is the violation of copyright law part of the human predicament?

I read a short story by Evelyn Waugh recently, which I was pleasantly surprised by. I might explore his other fiction at some point.

I'm not violating copyright law simply by reading what someone else has uploaded. If they hadn't uploaded it, I probably would not have read it.

But is it ethical for you to do so? It seems you likely had to actively search out such a file, as opposed to it falling into your lap.

But is it ethical for you to do so? It seems you likely had to actively search out such a file, as opposed to it falling into your lap. — Thorongil

Believe it or not it actually did kinda fall into my lap.

Superstructuralism: The Philosophy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, by Richard Harland.

Well, I'll be damned. You dun dodged an ethical and a legal quandary, my friend.

Gross.

Gross. — Thorongil

I bought it used, so I haven't tasted the pages.

Conquest of Abundance by Paul Feyerabend.

A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism by Lee Braver.

A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism by Lee Braver — darthbarracuda

Wonderful book, even if, ultimately, I disagree with it's thrust! The reading of Davidson alongside Heidegger in particular is a tour de force.

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Judith Butler - Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Loic Wacquant - Punishing the Poor: the Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

I agree, it is well-written and very interesting.

There we go.

Melinda Cooper - Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era
Nikolas Rose - The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

SPQR by Mary Beard
The Silmarillion by Tolkien

The Right and the Good by W. D. Ross.

Peter Brain and Ian Manning - Credit Code Red: How Financial Deregulation and World Instability are Exposing Australia to Economic Catastrophe

Some light, local reading while I wait for my Rose book to arrive : )

Words (Sartre's autobiography)
Dissemination (Derrida)
Interrogating the Real (Zizek)
Just finished the Sartre, actually. He's very open and likable. Finished first part of Derrida. Really liked the thoughts on Hegel's prefaces (which exiled themselves famously to a space outside philosophy proper). Derrida's prose is thick, of course, but I really like his tone. It's the same tone of his other texts I've look it. Cold but curious. He's also a thinker of form, or of the "content" in form. Zizek is great as usual (one of my favorite personalities), but the book (for me) lost steam after a very powerful beginning. Still, loved that beginning. He does tend to repeat himself, I've noticed. Oh well, maybe a personality is often permutations on a few key insights/revelations.

But is it ethical for you to do so? It seems you likely had to actively search out such a file, as opposed to it falling into your lap. — Thorongil

Believe it or not it actually did kinda fall into my lap. — darthbarracuda

>:O

I'm currently reading these books, all at once :-O (a few I've finished already though):

Behold The Spirit by Alan Watts
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra (reread)
The Republic by Plato (reread)
The Real Estate Game by William J. Poorvu
This paper by Thomas Metzinger (not that I agree with his views, but it was interesting to read)

Mostly philosophy, except that business book by Poorvu.