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Stravinsky posted:Other than the history book thread, there really isn't a place to discuss nonfiction. Now there is. So lets post about reading old dead dudes' thoughts on Marxism or books about sexism or whatever. Delusions of Gender is really excellent, good choice. I'm reading The Myth ogf Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and I personally think it is mostly bunk but it is good and thought provoking bunk. Everybody go read it if you ever think about mental illness at all.
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Yiggy posted:I also just started Foucalt's A History of Madness since we're starting a small discussion group on it in SAL. Only through chapter one. Its interesting but a little dense. I don't know how much of that is the translation and how much of that is Foucalt. The version I have is probably the most intimidating book I own. It has a foreword, an introduction, the original preface to the 1961 edition and the changed preface for the 1972 edition and each one (except maybe the 1972 preface) is more dense than most whole books. The 1972 preface is Foucault trying to justify writing a preface to a book 10 years after the main text is written and he concludes that he shouldn't.
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Mar 10, 2014 00:43
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I've been reading Godel Escher Bach it's proper good.
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Mar 24, 2015 20:43
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I've spent today reading First as Tragedy Then As Farce by noted terrible cinema forum poster Slavoj Zizek and it's actually really good but what are more good things that are similar preferably of a similar ;evel of accessibiloty but I will read more difficult stuff if you say it is good.
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Jun 28, 2015 20:06
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I'm reading THe Golden Bough and I keep alternating between cringing at how he keeps going on about how Aboriginals are by far the most underdeveloped of the human races and finding the sarcastic treatment of all of the weird magical rituals incredibly charming.
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