Summer Reading List 2010

Recommended by other listeners:

• 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
  • Autobiography of Red
  • Glass, Irony and God
• Dante, Divine Comedy
• Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Notes from Underground
• 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
  • Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization
  • Endgame Volume II: Resistance
• 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
  • The Border Trilogy
  • The Road
• 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
  • In the Shadow of the American Dream
  • Close to the Knives
• 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