Author Topic: What are you reading? (A quick poll.) (Read 107340 times)

Colin Michael · « **Reply #325 on:** August 11, 2009, 11:14:48 AM »

I started Heidegger's Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) for the fourth time from the beginning but this time carefully studied the foreward and translator's notes. It's really good and deep, but is undoubtedly the most difficult philosophical text ever written (though I find it less strenuous than reading Plato's dialogs; as brilliantly as they are written, they go off on too many unnecessary tangents).

I've got a bookmark in the second chapter of Jung's Modern Man in Search of a Soul, which is an introduction to the Jungian method of psychoanalysis.

I'm also in the middle of Foucault's Madness and Civilization, which is a Nietzschean "genealogy" (or as Foucault calls it: "archeology") into the origins of madness and insanity that traces (and thereby compares) the beginning of the institutionalisation of the the insane to the disappearance of lepers (and the leper colonies). Essentially, leprousy disappeared but the morality that revolved around leprousy (and the isolation of members from society) did not change.

I'm also in the middle of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, which is really an unbelievable book, however, I haven't been in much of a fiction mood of late.

I've also been flirting with Aristotle's Metaphysics, Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness and several philosophical and psychological textbooks.

I'm using this extremely long in-depth analysis post as a diversion from sitting in the library reading Being and Time, coincidentally.

P.S. To all philosophically minded Christians, especially Lewis lovers, I highly recommend Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. The book is a philosophical analysis of faith, but done through a method Kierkegaard calls "indirect communication". Essentially, Kierkegaard takes on a pseudonym who writes his thoughts in regards to stories, myths, and scriptures; however, the thought portrayed is not the analysis themselves, rather the analysis serves as a kind of allegory for Kierkegaard's philosophy and views on Christianity. It will rock your world, but won't (as people might suspect of a book I recommend) offend or disregard aspects of your faith; in fact, it should strengthen your faith greatly.

Clarinetguy097 · « **Reply #326 on:** August 11, 2009, 04:14:40 PM »

I'm reading all the updated topics. (didn't get on here yesterday)

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #327 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:29:25 AM »

Quote from: drb1200 on August 10, 2009, 06:58:48 PM

I'm currently reading "The Bronze Bow".

loved that one.

Red · « **Reply #328 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:06:46 PM »

Quote from: drb1200 on August 10, 2009, 06:58:48 PM

I'm currently reading "The Bronze Bow".

that book was great i'm also reading jack and jill by lusia may alcott.

drb1200 · « **Reply #329 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:24:48 PM »

Quote from: ejberkenpas22 on August 21, 2009, 05:19:02 PM

I am currently reading Harry Potter...not sure if I am allowed to say I am reading that or not...

Please don't get sassy with the board rules.

sk · « **Reply #330 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:26:55 PM »

After getting a headache reading Chesterton's "Paradoxes of Mr. Pond," I'm ready to try Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" again. We'll see how it goes...

Also, I finished Dekker's "The Boneman's Daughter"... very disappointing.

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #331 on:** August 21, 2009, 08:49:06 PM »

You would post here.

Illutsionist101 · « **Reply #332 on:** August 21, 2009, 08:59:36 PM »

so sue me. See my post. got to love groucho

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #333 on:** August 21, 2009, 09:01:00 PM »

I am reading this post.

Oh, that joke got old like 20 pages ago. My bad.

Smokey · « **Reply #334 on:** August 21, 2009, 09:01:36 PM »

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on August 21, 2009, 09:01:00 PM

I am reading this Thread.

Oh, that joke got old like 23 pages ago. My bad.

Clarinetguy097 · « **Reply #335 on:** August 21, 2009, 10:00:36 PM »

Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?

ejberkenpas22 · « **Reply #336 on:** August 21, 2009, 11:33:11 PM »

Quote from: Illutsionist101 on August 21, 2009, 06:05:58 PM

Okay Know I'm going to get burned for this but whatev
The Werewolf in Lore and Legend by Montague Summers

Colin Michael · « **Reply #337 on:** August 21, 2009, 11:43:35 PM »

Quote from: Clarinetguy097 on August 21, 2009, 10:00:36 PM

Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?

Yeah, I was reading Critique of Pure Reason at the start of Freshman year.

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #338 on:** August 22, 2009, 09:11:00 AM »

Quote from: sk on August 21, 2009, 05:26:55 PM

Also, I finished Dekker's "The Boneman's Daughter"... very disappointing.

agreed.

I am reading Dekker's facebook page... it's really quite good.

The Warrior · « **Reply #339 on:** August 22, 2009, 10:34:45 AM »

Quote from: Colin Michael on August 21, 2009, 11:43:35 PM

Quote from: Clarinetguy097 on August 21, 2009, 10:00:36 PM
Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?
Yeah, I was reading Critique of Pure Reason at the start of Freshman year.

at such time u were how old?

The Warrior · « **Reply #340 on:** August 22, 2009, 10:38:36 AM »

Quote from: Clarinetguy097 on August 21, 2009, 10:00:36 PM

Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?

u mean like this?

drb1200 · « **Reply #341 on:** August 22, 2009, 10:39:50 AM »

Quote from: The Warrior on August 22, 2009, 10:38:36 AM

Quote from: Clarinetguy097 on August 21, 2009, 10:00:36 PM
Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?
u mean like this?

No. Necroposting is different than doubleposting.

Colin Michael · « **Reply #342 on:** August 22, 2009, 02:59:42 PM »

Quote from: The Warrior on August 22, 2009, 10:34:45 AM

Quote from: Colin Michael on August 21, 2009, 11:43:35 PM
Quote from: Clarinetguy097 on August 21, 2009, 10:00:36 PM
Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?
Yeah, I was reading Critique of Pure Reason at the start of Freshman year.
at such time u were how old?

Well, it's the start of sophomore year right now, so I was 19.

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #343 on:** August 22, 2009, 05:40:24 PM »

necroposting is bringing a post back from the dead...

The Warrior · « **Reply #344 on:** August 23, 2009, 11:00:20 AM »

Quote from: Ring Wraith on August 22, 2009, 05:40:24 PM

necroposting is bringing a post back from the dead...

Sounds fun!

3-Liner And Bags Of Chips · « **Reply #345 on:** August 23, 2009, 09:48:59 PM »

Lord of the Flies was bleh. I am in the middle of the series of Vampire Knight the manga. I just started so i need to get some more of those books lolol

Kyp Henderson · « **Reply #346 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:29:12 PM »

So no one around here ever reads Star Wars!!!!!!?

They are the second most awesome books ever!!!!

Lawfuldog · « **Reply #347 on:** August 24, 2009, 10:54:46 AM »

I recently read for school:

Les Miserables
Pride and Prejudice
The Importance of Being Ernest
Tail of Two Cities

I really liked Les Miserables, but the rest were bleh... But, I was assigned Les Mis. for my 30 minute presentation, so that's good.

Colin Michael · « **Reply #348 on:** August 24, 2009, 11:12:21 AM »

Les Miserables is amazing.

I'm also actually a big Jane Austen fan, mainly because of the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre, a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame.

TheMarti · « **Reply #349 on:** August 24, 2009, 11:59:07 AM »

I can honestly say that Pride and Prejudice is the only book I've never finished. I hated it that much.

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Author Topic: What are you reading? (A quick poll.) (Read 107340 times)

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drb1200

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