One can tell a lot about a man by examining his personal library, I've always heard. So it might be an idea to have a place where we can post the books we have read, so others can understand ( in a limited way, certainly) where the contributors are coming from.
I've tried, over the years, to keep a computer file on my reading material. Well, I haven't listed the periodicals, but about 90% of the books I've gone thru. I still own most of those books and probably none of the periodicals.
The Smith Family book store has been a God-Send for me.
Reading a book certainly doesn't make us an authority on a subject, (and it may have been read a looooooonnggg time ago) but it does give us a base of understanding. Much of my stuff pertains to Philosophy in one way or another. But I have never attended a class in Philosophy in my life.
Heres my list of books - with the author opposite
Beowulf ?
Divine Comedy Vol.1-Inferno Alighieri, Dante
Divine Comedy Vol. 2- The Purgatorio Alighieri, Dante
Divine Comedy-The Paradiso Vol 3 Alighieri, Dante
Nicomachean\Politics Aristotle
Confessions Augustine (Saint)
Meditations Aurelius, Marcus
Irrational Man Barret, William
The Illusion of Technique Barret, William
Darwin, Marx, Wagner Barzun, Jacques
The Closing of The American Mind Bloom, Allen
Post.Scarcity Anarchism Bookchin, Murray
The Vikings Brondsted,Johannes
Resistance,Rebellion, & Death Camus, Albert
Serpent's Walk Caverhall, Randolph
The Future of Man Chardin, Pierre
Gods&myths of Northern Europe Davidson H.
Right-Wing Women Dworkin, Andrea
Sociology of Max Weber Freund, Julien
The End of the Jewish People Friedmann, Georges
The End of History & the Last Man Fukuyama,Francis
Selected Writings... Emerson Gilman, William
Faust Goethe
Pagan Reality Gorham,Melvin
Mythology Hamilton, Edith
Reason in History Hegel, Georg Wilhelm
German Existentialism Heidegger, Martin
Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolph
The Tao of Pooh Hoff, Benjamin
The Iliad Homer
Philo. Roots of Modern Ideology Ingersol\Matthews
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer Irwin Edman
Philosophy and the World Jaspers, Karl
MAN in the Modern Age Jaspers, Karl
Way to Wisdom Jaspers, Karl
Socrates, Budda, Confucius,Jesus Jaspers, Karl
Perennial Scope of Philosophy Jaspers, Karl
Correspondence-1926 to 1969 Jaspers, Karl
Philosophical Faith & Revelation Jaspers, Karl
Nietzsche Jaspers, Karl
Plato & Augustine Jaspers, Karl
The Transparent Self Jourard, Sidney
Memories, Dreams, Reflections Jung,Carl Gustave
Synchronicity Jung, Carl Gustave
2 Essays on Analytical Psychology Jung, Carl Gustave
Symbols of Transformation, vol 1 Jung, Carl Gustave
Psyche & Symbol Jung, Carl Gustave
The Tower and the Abyss Kahler,Erich
Prolegomena...Future Metaphysics Kant, Immanuel
Without Guilt and Justice Kaufmann, Walter
Existentialism,Dostoevsky to Sartre Kaufmann, Walter
Toward a New Mysticism King, Ursula
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
The Crowd Le Bon, Gustave
Writing of Chuang Tzu Legge, James
Of Civil Government Locke,John
Journals of Lewis & Clark M. Lewis & W. Clark
The Turner Diaries Macdonald, Andrew
Hunter Macdonald, Andrew
The Prince Machiavelli,Niccolo
Beyond Liberal & Conservative Maddox, William
Jefferson Himself Mayo,Bernard
Moral Man & Immoral Society Niebuhr, Reinhold
Beyond Good & Evil Nietzsche
A Nietzsche Reader Nietzsche
Birth of Tragedy&Case of Wagner Nietzsche
Genealogy of Morals@ Ecce Homo Nietzsche
Thus spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche
1984 Orwell, George
The Republic Plato
For the New Intellectual Rand, Ayn
African Religions Ray, Benj. C
Anatomy of Peace Refes,Emery
The Mind in the Making Robinson,J.H.
Psychoanalysis&Existential Philo. Ruitenbeek,Hendrik
Journal of a Trapper Russell, Osborne
Anti-Semite and Jew Sartre, Jean-Paul
Morals Seneca
Frankenstein Shelly,Mary
Walden 2 Skinner, B. F.
Beyond Freedom & Dignity Skinner, B.F.
Race and Culture Sowell, Thomas
Zen Buddhism Suzuki, D. T.
The Mediator Swartzbaugh, Richard
Walden Thoreau, Henry D.
Selected Journals Thoreau, Henry D.
5 Essays on Philosophy Tsetung, Mao
Radical Man Turner, Charles H.
Protestant Ethic&Spiritof Capitalism Weber,Max
The Meeting of the Ways Welwood, John
Confrontation with Modernity Zimmerman,Michael
An ascendant man, living in a degenerate age, MUST, by definition, live in contradistinction to his times.
