The past several months of work crunch, together with watching the U.S. slide toward banana republic status (with apologies to those developing Latin American jurisdictions exploited by American agricultural exporters), caused me to read randomly as well as toward my work on technology and the notion of the human "self." (see earlier post). However, to give even brief review of all, and longer for some, will take time, obviously, so for now I am just listing the reading and will select those about which I've done some reflection. Bibliographic citation standards have been case aside in favor of links to Amazon; I agree that WorldCat would be better but has no "search inside the book" features to keep me honest or the curious engaged.
On CD (driving Bryant to school): S. Collins, The Hunger Games, (trilogy 2008-2010); I. Caldwell, D. Thomason, The Rule of Four (2005).
Codex format: F. Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order (part I) (2011); R. Yates, Revolutionary Road (1961); M. Barbery (trans. A. Anderson)[ L'élégance du hérisson, 2006], The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2008); C. McCarthy, The Road (2007), J. Homans, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (2010); B.D.Ehrman, Lost Scriptures (2003); A. Carson, Nox (2010); A. Carson, trans. and ed., An Oresteia (2009); N. Rose, Inventing Ourselves: Psychology, Power and Personhood (1998), J.-F.Lyotard (trans. R. Harvey), Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics (2001); Xu Gan (trans. John Makeham), Balanced Discourses (2002) ; assorted Buddhist spiritual texts.
Re-read: Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (1912; Simon & Brown 2011)); J. Salamaga, Death, With Interruptions trans.(M.J.Costa); Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (revised Scott Moncrieff translation, Enright), A la recherche du temps perdu (Swann’s Way); and for fun, Simon Critchley's The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008).
In progress: Smith, Griffin, Fischer, [Clemens] The Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol 1 (2010, portions under various copyrights since 1917).
Brief reviews to follow of some of these texts. Ah, summer. If only work did not interfere with our work.....
On CD (driving Bryant to school): S. Collins, The Hunger Games, (trilogy 2008-2010); I. Caldwell, D. Thomason, The Rule of Four (2005).
Codex format: F. Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order (part I) (2011); R. Yates, Revolutionary Road (1961); M. Barbery (trans. A. Anderson)[ L'élégance du hérisson, 2006], The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2008); C. McCarthy, The Road (2007), J. Homans, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (2010); B.D.Ehrman, Lost Scriptures (2003); A. Carson, Nox (2010); A. Carson, trans. and ed., An Oresteia (2009); N. Rose, Inventing Ourselves: Psychology, Power and Personhood (1998), J.-F.Lyotard (trans. R. Harvey), Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics (2001); Xu Gan (trans. John Makeham), Balanced Discourses (2002) ; assorted Buddhist spiritual texts.
Re-read: Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (1912; Simon & Brown 2011)); J. Salamaga, Death, With Interruptions trans.(M.J.Costa); Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (revised Scott Moncrieff translation, Enright), A la recherche du temps perdu (Swann’s Way); and for fun, Simon Critchley's The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008).
In progress: Smith, Griffin, Fischer, [Clemens] The Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol 1 (2010, portions under various copyrights since 1917).
Brief reviews to follow of some of these texts. Ah, summer. If only work did not interfere with our work.....
