by proximity1
Thu Jun 8th, 2006 at 11:31:43 AM EST
The following list of recommended reading is a 'work-in-progress'. There are authors whose listed works I've read, or am reading or intend to read. Your corrections, comments and suggestions are welcome. I also hope, by this page which shall be available in the site's 'Wiki' archive, to encourage other ET participants to list their recommended reading under the "Arts & Culture" rubric for the benefit of the rest of us.
Though it should not be necessary, perhaps it would not hurt to remind the reader that the mere presence in the list of an author or a title should not be interpreted as necessarily an endorsement of the views of the author or of the arguments in the work listed. If I list Leo Strauss or Niccolo Machiavelli, for example, it's because I believe that they have important things to teach us--and this could be as much by what they got wrong in their work as what they got right. Indeed, it may be that authors' errors in their theory teach us more than works in which there is little with which to find fault.
Finally, we ought to assume that there are faults and weaknesses in every work and that our task as readers is to uncover the faults and profit by them. It is in recognizing the faults as well as the valid points that we can benefit from a writer's work--whether we happen to agree with his main thesis or not.
proximity1's Recommended Reading
Notes:
All titles are available (originally or translated) in english unless otherwise noted
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[ Many author's "dates" have yet to be looked up and added.]
Normand Baillargeon (19-- )
Petit cours d'autodéfense intellectuelle
Bernard Bailyn (1922- )
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
Georges Balandier (19--)
Julien Benda (1867-1956)
Carl Bernstein (1944-) and Bob Woodward (1943- )
All the President's Men
The Final Days
Raymond Boudon (1934 - )
The Analysis of Ideology [L'idéologie: ou l'origine des idées reçues]
The art of self-persuasion
Olive Ann Burns (1924-1990)
Cold Sassy Tree
Alain Caillé (19--)
(ed.) Quelle démocratie voulons
nous?: pièces pour un débat (2006) [F]
Robert Caro (1935- )
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Malcolm Cowley (1898 - 1989)
Exile's Return
--And I Worked at the Writer's Trade
The Dream of the Golden Mountains
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, [ William Shakespeare] (1550-1604)
Collected plays and poetry of William Shakespeare
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939 )
Civilization and Its Discontents
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Peter Gay (1923 - )
The Enlightenment [in two volumes]
William Greider (19-- )
Who Will Tell the People?: The Betrayal of American Democracy
One World, Ready or Not:The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
J.L. (John Lawrence) (1872-1949) and Barbara (Bradby) (1873-1961) Hammond
The Village Labourer
The Town Labourer
The SKilled Labourer
Eric Hobsbawm (1917- )
Age of Revolution
Age of Empire
Age of Capital
Age of Extremes
Richard Hofstadter (1916 - 1970)
The Age of Reform (1955)
Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963)
The American Political Tradition (1948)
Social Darwinsim in American Thought, 1860-1915 (1944)
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
David Hume (1711-1776)
A Treatise on Human Nature
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
A History of England
Raoul Marc Jennar (19--
Europe, la Trahison des élites
Matthew Josephson (
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Essays in Persuasion
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960)
LTI [Lingua tertii imperii] : La langue du IIIè Reich
originally,
LTI - Notizbuch eines Philologen
and Lingua Tertii Imperii, Sprache des Dritten Reichs
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-41
To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-45
LRB review
Eugen Kogon (1903-1987)
The Theory and Practice of Hell
[orig.: Der SS Staat Das System der deutschen
Konzentrationslager]
Paul Krugman (1953- )
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century(September 2003
Pop Internationalism (1996)
Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations (1995)
Christopher Lasch (1932-1994)
: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminished Expectations
(1979)
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
(1984)
The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
Titus Lucretius Carus(circa 94 - 49 B.C.)
De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]
Crawford Brough Macpherson (1911-1987)
The Political Theory of Possessive
Individualism
Pierre Manent (19--
La raison des nations: Réflexions
sur la démocratie en Europe
Karl Marx (1818-1883):
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950):
Editors of The New York Times (edited by)
Papers on the [Vietnam] War [The Pentagon Papers]
Charlton Ogburn (1911 - 1998)
The Mysterious William Shakespeare
George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903-1950)
A Collection of Essays
Homage to Catalonia
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-four
Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters
vol. 1: An Age Like This: 1920-1940
vol. 2: My Country, Right or Left: 1940-1943
vol. 3: As I Please: 1943-1945
vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
Publius Ovidius [Ovid] Naso (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
Metamorphoses
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809 )
Collected Writings : The Crisis; The Rights of Man; (Oxford Classics)
Karl Polányi (1886-1964)
The Great Transformation
Karl Popper (1902-1994):
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Poverty of Historicism
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Ignacio Ramonet (19--
Geopolitics of Chaos [orig. Géopolitique du chaos], 1997, 1999
La Tyrannie de la communication, 1999 [F]
Propagandes silencieuses, 2000 [F]
Philip Roth (1933- )
American Pastoral
I Married a Communist
The Human Stain
The Plot Against America
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970):
A History of Western Philosophy
Political Ideals
Power
G. Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Collected Plays and Prefaces
Commonsense about the War
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The Black Girl in Search of God
Everybody's Political What's What
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Wealth of Nations
C. P. (Charles Percy) Snow (1905-1980)
The Strangers and Brothers series of novels
The Two Cultures
John Ralston Saul (19-- )
Voltaire's Bastards
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Democracy in America (I & II)
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Enzo Traverso (
Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, an overview of 14th Century medieval Europe
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
Collected Short Stories
Tom Swayer
Huckelberry Finn
The Viking Portable Twain
Twain bibliography
Max Weber (1864 - 1920 )
The Protestant Ethic in the Spirit of Capitalism
Rebecca West (1892-1983)
Black Lamb, Grey Falcon
[that's what I have so far; hypertext links to be added ]
