Friday, December 31, 2004
Booklists!
Ok, so I've got all kinds of gift cards to B&N and Boarders, and I've got a few ideas of my own, but I'm curious to know what books you guys recommend. Specifically: what books are really "must own" books? (from your perspective) I'm looking for books that must be gone over, written in, wrestled with. . . not books that are best checked out and checked in.
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recommendations from the Continental/Phenomenological Tradition:
1."God Without Being" Jean-Luc Marion translated by Thomas Carlson (U of Chicago, 1991/95)-- sections of this book are better than anything else I've ever read
2."Basic Philosophical Writings" Emmanuel Levinas edited by Peperzak, Critchley, Bernasconi (U of Indiana 1996)--one of the only truly ethical texts about ethics
3.a "The Sickness Unto Death" Soren Kierkegaard translated and edited by Hong (Princeton 1980)-- a book about sin and selfhood
3.b "The Viking Portable Nietzsche" edited by Walter Kauffman and published by Penguin-- a relatively cheap paperback that's well worth owning
4."Being and Time" Martin Heidegger (there are two English translations, one by Stambaugh and one by Macquarrie and Robinson)-- that is, if you are feeling really ambitious. It's a large and amazingly complex book, but it's a foundational text for most contemporary Continental philosophy (including Levinas, Marion, Derrida and Gadamer) I recommend getting Richard Polt's "Heidegger" as a companion piece if you read Being and Time
**If you want a faster way to become aquainted with Continental philosophy and theology and their import for Christian living, Bruce Benson's book "Graven Ideologies" is pretty fantastic. I think it's published by InterVarsityPress (I loaned it out, so I don't have publishing info with me). It could be a good place to start and branch out from.
Coye, that list is so predicatable and boring.
I suggest a subscription to US Weekly.
On a lighter note, If you haven't read any Garcia Marquez, you should. 100 Years of Solitude is great.
Thankth!
Through New Eyes by James B. Jordan and then A House for My Name by Peter Leithart. These are both excellent introductions to reading the Bible literarily, which is not the same as reading the Bible as literature.
You can't buy these at Boarders though.
If you want to wrestle with something I suggest you buy a book called _Japanese for Busy People_. It will make you want to tear your hair off. Or you could buy something like the Complete Idiot's Guide to Investing. Learn about all the dough you could make if you actually had any to start with.
Ryan: If you want to give me money, I promise I wouldn't argue with you.
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