My Book List For Fall 2012

[Nihil Obstat]

Here's the books I picked up last week for my first semester. Anyone read any of them? I'm somewhat familiar with a couple of them, but not in any kind of detail.
[list]
[*]Language, Proof, and Logic (Barker-Plummer Barwise and Etchemendy) (2nd ed.)
[*]Essays in Existence (Jean-Paul Sartre)
[*]Basic Writings (Martin Heidegger)
[*]Philosophy and Death (edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert J Stainton)
[*]Our Stories (Fischer)
[*]Strangers to Ourselves (Kristeva)
[*]On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Jaques Derrida)
[*]Ethics (Alain Badiou)
[*]Well-Being and Death (Ben Bradley)
[*]Eclipse of Reason (Max Horkheimer)
[*]Management Accounting (Horngren Sundem Stratton and Beaulieu) (6th ed.)
[/list]

[Ed Normile]

It seem you forgot

Green Eggs and Ham ( Dr. Suess)
The Lorax (Dr. Suess)
Clifford The Big Red Dog (Norman Bridwell)
Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)

ed

[arfink]

I am somewhat familiar with the the thought of Sartre and Heidegger, though indirectly. I'm sure I don't need to tell you, but watch your step with both of those gentleman.

[Nihil Obstat]

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I am somewhat familiar with the the thought of Sartre and Heidegger, though indirectly. I'm sure I don't need to tell you, but watch your step with both of those gentleman.
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Naturally. I wouldn't worry though. I made it through Nietzsche and Hegel and Kierkegaard. I am finding it much less difficult than I might have anticipated two or three years ago to sniff out where things start to go 'off the rails' so to speak.

Edited September 5, 2012 by Nihil Obstat

[Papist]

[quote name='Ed Normile' timestamp='1346805021' post='2478474']
It seem you forgot

Green Eggs and Ham ( Dr. Suess)
The Lorax (Dr. Suess)
Clifford The Big Red Dog (Norman Bridwell)
Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)

ed
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He can get those on video.

[Not The Philosopher]

I've never really read Derrida, though he has remained something of a symbol of academic decadence for me. Regardless, it seems like some of his political work [url="http://www.anamnesisjournal.com/issues/2-web-essays/49-lee-trepanier"][i]could [/i]actually be interesting[/url] to read (again, as recommended above, get your salt shakers ready.).

Also: yea logic.

[arfink]

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Naturally. I wouldn't worry though. I made it through Nietzsche and Hegel and Kierkegaard. I am finding it much less difficult than I might have anticipated two or three years ago to sniff out where things start to go 'off the rails' so to speak.
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Yeah, I got a nose for that in seminary myself. Once you know it can be quite fun to try picking their arguments apart. Enjoy!

[Ed Normile]

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He can get those on video.
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Would that be cheatin' ?

ed

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Not The Philosopher' timestamp='1346806956' post='2478502']
I've never really read Derrida, though he has remained something of a symbol of academic decadence for me. Regardless, it seems like some of his political work [url="http://www.anamnesisjournal.com/issues/2-web-essays/49-lee-trepanier"][i]could [/i]actually be interesting[/url] to read (again, as recommended above, get your salt shakers ready.).

Also: yea logic.
[/quote]

That'll be an interesting one for sure. The professor who teaches this class actually specializes in feminist philosophy. I did a continental course with her last year though, and she really wasn't that bad at all though.
But still, a feminist philosopher teaching with a post-structuralist...

[arfink]

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But still, a feminist philosopher teaching with a post-structuralist...
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Ummmmm, that would be interesting to watch. I wonder if her head will explode.

[Nihil Obstat]

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Ummmmm, that would be interesting to watch. I wonder if her head will explode.
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She actually did a very good job last year of making Hegel borderline accessible.

[Brother Adam]

Fun. I find Kreefts dialogues great intros before reading modern philosophers.

[Marie-Therese]

I've read Sartre and Heidegger...are you taking existentialist philosophy this semester? I read Sartre quite a bit in the existentialist class I had early on in college, along with Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, and a few others. I found Sartre fascinating.

[PhuturePriest]

I have never even heard of one of these books or authors (Except perhaps Kierkegaard because of Wayne's World).

Just felt like sharing!

[emmaberry]

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I made it through Nietzsche and Hegel and [b]Kierkegaard[/b].[/quote]

Kierkegaard, eh? You'll get through your list in a breeze then.