Jow Forums, what non-fiction books would you recommend? I am talking about politics, philosophy or anything related to your belief system, not necessarily about history.
Feel free to post any of the Jow Forums templates floating around or your personal recommendations.
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Seneca mora letters to lucillius
Caesars campaigns
Tacitus
Thucydides
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"The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History" (2002) by Philip Bobbitt.
"The City and Man" (1964) by Leo Strauss.
An absolute must read
Mein Kampf
"Violence" (2007) by Slavoj Žižek.
Bumping this high quality thread.
"The Idea of Communism" (2010) by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek (editors).
"On the Use and Abuse of History for Life" (1874) by Friedrich Nietzsche.
"The End of History and the Last Man" (1992) by Francis Fukuyama.
"The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" (2002) by Steven Pinker.
Tom Sharpe, ancestral vices,
A fantastic book about political clashes that will have you in stitches
Amazing breath of vocabulary with a soupçon of daintiness that will keep you reading on.
Never laughed like that in my life
The Satyricon by Petronius is one of the funniest books ever written, and also, probably the first novel we have that still exists (although some of it is missing)
Brave New World is also hilarious and a classic. 90 years old now? It's still a great read.
Childhood's End is fun... Ringworld and Dune and Hyperion. Yeah.
Lloyd deMause with his books on psychohistory, or the idea that psychology and history are intertwined and that more archaic societies were defined by their childhood traumas. A fun read, sort of like Julian Jaynes (who wrote about bicameralism, or ancient schizophrenic consciousness).
The classics, of course. The greek philosophers and plays, the roman rhetoric and satire, the middle age epics/myths (beowulf, the sagas, song of roland, le morte d'arthur, tristan and iseult, gargantua and pantagruel, piers the ploughman, dante, 1001 nights, don quixote), then renaissance pieces (erasmus, chaucer, moliere, voltaire, rousseau, kant, hume, goethe), and industrial age stuff (priestly, flaubert, mdme de stael, defoe), err... modern stuff? the dystopian stuff, tolkein... some scifi... what i mentioned above.
the tale of genji is good too
yes this is a good suggestion, also check out "The Con Artist’s Handbook"
oh and Miles Mathis for contemporary stuff, about everyone else is some rich crypto-jew who only gets published because of his connections (or is the CIA pushing shit using rich kid actor fronts).
Moral philosophy. Midgley also has a short book released recently called "Are you an illusion" which makes a strong case against reductive materialism in the sciences.
Problem is the people creating these threads are working in groups to bump their own threads. There's been coordinated shilling going on since before the election from multiple actors.
Looking for my next book. Would you put this on the top of your recommendations? I'm willing to puchase off what you recommend.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
It really depends on what you are looking for. Each book is completely different from each other, and there are a lot of points of view.
What are you interested in right now? What would you like to read about?