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Summer Reading List 2009
Even if you're not going to Biarritz for the summer as usual, you can relax in the sun and read. There are a lot of readable, beach-friendly classics and non-classics to add philosophical depth to your Summer Reading. Join Ken and John to share some of the philosophically-minded reading on your list for this summer.
Philosophy & Nonfiction mentioned on the air
Fiction mentioned on the air
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Anne Bronte, |
Geoff Dyer, |
Greg Mortensen, |
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John G. Neihardt, |
Kamran Pasha, |
Robert Pirsig, |
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Daniel Quinn, |
Jose Saramago, |
Jose Saramago, |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, |
Bernhard Schlink, |
Bernhard Schlink, |
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Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, |
Neal Stephenson, |
Jonathan Swift, |
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran.
- A.H Almaas, various titles.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
- Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
- George Berkeley,
- Mary Blue, Beginning Comprehension.
- Andy Clark, Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension.
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment.
- Epictetus, The Art of Living.
- Thomas Edward Gass, Nobody’s Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide.
- Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History.
- Martin Heidegger, Being and Time.
- Richard Joyce, The Myth of Morality.
- Leon R. Kass, Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Report President's Council on Bioethics.
- George Lakoff, Moral Politics.
- Robert Lanza and Bob Berman, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe.
- Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed.
- Ruth Garrett Millikan, On Clear and Confused Ideas.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On the advantages and disadvantages of history for life.
- Alva Noe, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from
- the Biology of Consciousness.
- David Potter, Freedom and Its Limitations in American Life.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic.
- Peter Singer,
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
- Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View.
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