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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.

I'm currently reading "The Bronze Bow".

loved that one.

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.

You would post here.

I am reading this post.

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

Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?

Notice how people keep necroposting this thread?

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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