Yes, that’s right, it’s time for Round Two of “What’s On My Book Shelf”! Woo!! I know you have been waiting in suspense since the first installment. Today’s shelf includes mainly Philosophy and Psychology tomes. As you may or may not already know, my undergraduate degree is in English Language & Literature with a Philosophy minor. My favourite subject in PHIL was Metaphysics, but they didn’t offer many courses in it at Glendon. So unfortunately (or fortunately?) my minor is in Ethics. Which I guess makes sense since I am a HUGE advocate of appropriateness and equality (i.e. don’t make rules you don’t intend to obide by as well). Oh, and I also majored in Psychology for a semester as I changed my core subject a total of 11 times – three times before I was even accepted at York University. I originally applied for Political Science, which is not really fitting a co’bo comme moi, except that one of my 2011 New Year’s Resolutions includes joining the Liberal Party.
So anyway, some of these books are from my uni days, but quite a few are from earlier when I was in a mail-order book club in highschool. I miss those. So many books delivered to your door! Like Christmas in July. (Assuming, of course, that you ordered them around that time.) My favourite book on this list? Hegel’s “Reason in History” (since he is my fav philosopher). What girl doesn’t love the philosophy of time? It’s passing is so bitter-sweet.
Shelf #2: Philosophy / Psychology
Dyzenhaus, David and Ripstein, Arthur. Law and Morality: Readings in Legal Philosophy.
Kant, Immanuel. Perpetual Peace and Other Essays.
de Beauvoir, Simone. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter.
More, Thomas. Utopia.
Camus, Albert. The Outsider.
Camus, Albert. The Rebel.
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince.
Kierkegaard, Soren. The Seducer’s Diary.
Heidegger, Martin. An Introduction to Metaphysics.
Benardete, Jose A. Metaphysics.
Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Roberts, Henry C. The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus.
Brill, A. A. The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud.
Gendron, Bernard. Technology and the Human Condition.
Durkheim, Emile. Suicide: A Study in Sociology.
Ritchie, Marian. The Long Way Home: A Journey Through Alzheimer’s.
Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz. Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel.
Hegel, G. W. F. Reason in History.
Dunn, L. C. and Dobzhansky, Th. Heredity, Race and Society.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness.
Murray, Charles. What It Means To Be A Libertarian.
Marx, Karl. The German Ideology.
Bloom, Allan. The Republic of Plato.
Apostle, Hippocrates G. and Gerson, Lloyd P. Aristotle: Selected Works.
Sulloway, Frank J. Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives.
Nin, Anais. In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays.
Hazlitt, William. Selected Writings.
and, Om at Home: a Yoga Journal (but not sure why that’s on my Phil/Psych shelf – should be on New Age)
Well, there you go. A glimpse into the psyche of the ‘bo.
Toods,
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