A Philosopher’s Bookshelf

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Strange books for strange thinkers.

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Vintage Books, 2011. Buy here!

De Beauvoir, Simone. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup, HarperPerennial, 2005. Buy here!

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Open Road Integrated Media, 2018. Buy here!

Bray, Mark. Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook. Melville House Publishing, 2017. Buy here!

Easwaran, Eknath, translator. The Bhagavad Gita. Nilgiri Press, 2007. Buy here!

Eknath, Easwaran, translator. The Dhammapada. Nilgiri Press, 2019. Buy here!

Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. Translated by Justin O’Brien, Vintage International, 2018. Buy here!

Camus, Albert. Resistance, Rebelion and Death. Translated by Justin O’Brien, Vintage International, 1995. Buy here!

Camus, Albert. Lyrical and Critical Essays. Edited by Philip Thody. Translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, Vintage Books, 1970. Buy here!

Camus, Albert. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt. Vintage Books, 2008. Buy here!

Copleston, Frederick. A History of Philosophy. I-III, Image Books, 1985. Buy here!

Chomsky, Aviva. “They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration. Beacon Press, 2007. Buy here!

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Freedom Evolves. Penguin, 2004. Buy here!

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting. MIT Press . A Bradford Book, 2015. Buy here!

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown and Company, 2007. Buy here!

Dennett, Daniel C. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster, 1996. Buy here!

Diouf, Sylviane A. Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. New York University Press, 2016. Buy here!

Freud, Sigmund. The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. Translated by A. A. Brill, Modern Library, 1995. Buy here!

Freud, Sigmund. The Ego and the Id. Edited by James Strachey. Translated by Joan Riviere, W.W. Norton, 1962. Buy here!

Shrage, Laurie, editor. “You’ve Changed”: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity. Oxford University Press, 2009. Buy here!

Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. Routledge, 2009. Buy here!

Empricus, Sextus. Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Translated by Robert Gregg Bury, Prometheus Books, 1990. Buy here!

Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Vintage Books, 2004. Buy here!

Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005. Buy here!

Federici, Silvia. Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. PM Press, 2012. Buy here!

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Grove Press, 2008. Buy here!

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, 2021. Buy here!

González Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Penguin Books, 2011. Buy here!

Hume, David. Selected Essays (Oxford World’s Classics). Edited by Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar, Oxford University Press, 1998. Buy here!

Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. Barnes & Noble, 2005. Buy here!

Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve, 2009. Buy here!

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men. Basic Books, 1992. Buy here!

Harvey, David. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2015. Buy here!

Lyotard Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. Buy here!

Pojman, Louis P., and Michael C. Rea, editors. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008. Buy here!

Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations. Edited by Dermot Moran. Translated by J N Findlay, Volume I, Routledge, 2001. Buy here!

Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations. Edited by Dermot Moran. Translated by John N. Findlay, Volume II, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2001. Buy here!

Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology. Translated by Fred Kersten, vol. 1, Kluwer, 1998. Buy here!

Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution. Vol. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1982. Buy here!

Husserl, Edmund. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917). Translated by John B. Brough, Kluwer Academic Publ, 2011. Buy here!

Husserl, Edmund. Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2013. Buy here!

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Happy Holidays strange thinkers! Don’t forget! ALL HOLIDAYS MATTER!!! So Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Merry Festivus, Happy Kwanzaa, Get your Saturnalia on, or however your holy days self-identify. Here are books you need in your life!

Aristotle. Complete Works Part 1. Translated by Jonathan Barnes, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995. Buy here!

Aristotle. Complete Works Part 2. Translated by Jonathan Barnes, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995. Buy here!

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan(New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 20-21. Buy here!

Michel Foucault, Power: (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3), trans. R. Hurley, ed. J. Faubion (New York: The New Press, 2015). Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: an Introduction. Translated by Robert J. Hurley, Vintage, 1990. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, edited by Colin Gordon, by Michel Foucault, Longman, 1980, pp. 109–133. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the collège De France, 1975-76. Translated by David Macey, Picador, 2003. Buy here!

Pull Yourself Together: A True Story of Alternate Realities, Spiritual Healing, and Dimensional Wholeness. Buy here!

Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton, Columbia University Press, 1994. Buy here!

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Autonomedia, 2014. Buy here!

Farmer, Philip Jose. Riders of the Purple Wage. Buy here!

Laozi. Tao Teh Ching 1. Translated by John C. H. Wu, Shambhala, 2003. Buy here!

Wang, Bi. The Classic of the Way and Virtue: a New Translation of the “Tao-Te Ching” of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi, translated by Richard John Lynn, by Lao Zi, Columbia University Press, 1999. Buy here!

Laozi. Tao: A New Way of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao tê Ching with an Introduction and Commentaries, translated by Chung-Yuan Chang, Singing Dragon, London, 2014. Buy here!

Laozi. Tao Te Ching a Bilingual Edition. Edited by Wang Bi. Translated by Dim Cheuk Lau, The Chinese University Press, 2001. Buy here!

Zhuang, Zhou. The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Translated by Brook Ziporyn, Hackett, 2009. Buy here!

Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Routledge, 2002. Buy here!

The Ecology of Attention by Yves Citton. Buy here!

Einstein, Albert. Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition by Albert Einstein. Translated by Robert W. Lawson, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1961. Buy here!

Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature, Barnes & Noble, New York, NY, 2005. Buy here!

Schulman, Sarah. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017. Buy here!

Deleuze, Gilles. Nietzsche and Philosophy. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Columbia University Press, 1986. Buy here!

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1974. Buy here!

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None. Translated by Walter Kaufman, The Viking Press, 1966. Buy here!

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, translated by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1989. Buy here!

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ. Translated by Reginald John Hollingdale, Penguin Books, 2003. Buy here!

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic. Hackett Pub. Co, 2009. Buy here!

Singal, Jesse. The Quick Fix Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021. Buy here!

Plato Complete Works Buy here!

Taibbi, Matt. Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another: With a New Post-Election Preface. OR Books, 2021. Buy here!

Ol’ Dirty Bastard . “‘Cuttin’ Headz’ (Featuring RZA).” Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, The RZA. Buy Here!

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