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Saturday, April 30, 2016

A HEAD START ON SUMMER READING

Ten Books Worth Reading

              Erich Auerbach, Mimesis

      Sǿren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments

              Marc Bloch, La Société Féodale

              Paul Goodman, Empire City

              Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long

              Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

             W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction

              Jacqueline Jones, American Work

              Any of the books by the evolutionary biologist Nick Lane

              Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah

2 comments:

Brian Block said...

Reminds me of your Philosophical Classics elective class I so enjoyed at UMass- particularly Mimesis -
was forever changed by your reading of that.

Robert Paul Wolff said...

Brian, you did a fine last paper on a very difficult passage in Kierkegaard's PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS but my records show you never revised it for a final grade and got an Incomplete. Never too late!!! :)