Stuff To Study
This is a list for me. Of stuff I want to study. Also books I want to read and stuff.
Existentialist Philosophers
Nietzsche–Thus Spake, Beyond Good and Evil
Unamuno- The Tragic Sense of Life
Camus-Rest of Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague, and The Fall
Sartre–Being and Nothingness, Nausea, Existentialism
Heidegger–Being and Time
Other Philosophers
Fucault! (esp Fearless Speech)
Negative Dialectics, Adorno
Philosophy in the Flesh
Dougles Hofstader–Godel, Escher, Bach and The Mind’s Eye
Habermas–esp The Legitimation Crisis
Arnold Gehlen and Evast Kap (?)=early phil of tech
John Dewey?
The Planetary Man, Wilfrid Desan
Ethics
Moralities of Everyday Life–Sabini
Postconventional Moral Thinking–James Rest
After Virtue by MacIntyre
Dworkin-Taking Rights Seriously
Read up on Martin Bube
Science Books
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Hacking Matter
Making Natural Knowledge
Darwin among the Machines by George Dyson
Sebastian Sethe–guy who argues against life extension
T.H Huxley
Objectivity–George Galison and other…
Other Academic
Metaphors we Live By by Lackoff and Johnson
Laura Walls books, esp Emerson and Science: The Culture of Truth
Nanovision – Milburn –post-modern and singularity account by an English guy
Some Fredrick Turner (ie: http://www.amazon.com/Rebirth-Value-Meditations-Religion-Education/dp/0791404749/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_8_
Science Fiction/Literature
Dune!
Stranger in a Strange Land
Phillip K. Dick
Ian Banks
Ishmael
Rest of Vonnegut (esp Monkey House, Mother Night, Jailbird)
Don Quixote
Rest of Huxley (esp The Island)
Camus and Sartre fiction
Neuromancer
Vladmir Nabokov (esp Bend Sinister)
Gulliver’s Travels
Walden
Random
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
The Irony of Free Speech by Owen Fiss
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
James P. Carse–Finite and Infinite Games
The Lucifer Principle
Movies
Brazil
Boy and His Dog
Children of Men
Hunter S. Thompson



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