Does /his/ have some sort of list of essential or recommended reading? If not, should one be made?
I would assume that the one on /lit/ would suffice.
For my brethren in Christ and those who abide in the Truth.
>he hasn't compiled his own to-read list on Goodreads yet
posting a couple
The online resources I give you are:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/
Theoi for Greek Mythology
http://www.theoi.com/
>Does /his/ have some sort of list of essential or recommended reading?
The way /his/ does thins is the lenghty scholarly bibliography way, on extremely specific subjects, like in this thread:
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/952843
>>959539
>For my brethren in Christ and those who abide in the Truth.
But that's Popeian lit, not Christian
>>959539
>LOTR
lol what
some good books on there though, i loved Fear and Trembling. despite the fact that im not a Christian Kierkegaard almost makes me wish i was (almost)
>>960888
Tolkien is a Catholic
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/20-ways-the-lord-of-the-rings-is-both-christian-and-catholic.html
>>960865
Loomis
>>960902
I always wonder about these images, they seem to always cherrypick the worst of protestantism while overlooking things like the fact Hegel was a Lutheran.
>>960902
Osteen isn't even Protestant
>>960894
he also explicitly said that LOTR was not an allegory
but yeh whatever
>>960983
>>959539
Missing from that list:
Life of a servant by Henry suso
The fucking Torah.
You must be a jew before you can be a Christian.
>>961003
Neither of those sources that wiki links says anything about him being Protestant. I
'm pretty sure hes non denominational
>>960894
Oh boy, another person who tries to find allegories in Tolkiens work and completely fucks it.
If possible could someone get me the Oxford Bibliograohy for the Chinese Republic or Chiang Kai Shek.
My collegue doesnt have those on their subscription
>>960989
>>961029
I'll take Tolkien's own words over your memes:
"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work," he wrote, "unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like "religion", to cults or practices, in the Imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism" (Letter 142).
>>960939
And hegkek is shit.
>>961055
That doesn't make his books catholic. If you want to read book heavily inspired by catholic beliefs go read Narnia and then compare it to Children of Húrin, LOTR, The Silmarilion. Even then, his most catcholic book is the Silmarilion not LOTR.
>>961066
The author has spoken, your opinion is a meme.
>>961066
But Narnia and The Silmarillion are in the reccomendation list too.
>>959539
Worshiping a man is not truth.
>>961042
Just posting the links.
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920082/obo-9780199920082-0119.xml?rskey=CBiRwh&result=1&q=chiang+kai+shek#firstMatch
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920082/obo-9780199920082-0028.xml?rskey=CBiRwh&result=4&q=chiang+kai+shek#firstMatch
>>961147
Yes it was that.
Actually i don't think my College only allows to see the first section of the bibliographies which is good for the initial research but it annoys me to no end.
This one hasn't been posted.
>>961042
Jonstond2's account has that one
>>961172
Start with the Greeks.
>>961163
Anyone can see the introductory accept for a few articles which don't even show that
For anyone who wants access to papers, sci-hub.io may be able to help.
>>961172
>Leftist/progressive
Absolutely disgusting
>>961172
>The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Well, that's gotta be a boring book. It'd just be "Sad, depressing, frustrated."
>>961217
"Know thyself, and know thy enemy" - Sun Tzu
>>961244
It's an essay. Read it if you like.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/
Does anyone have an annoted bibliography on the Silk Road?
I know Silk Road foundation has a bibliography that is filled to the brim with stuff, but i just wanted a good starting point on it.
http://pastebin.com/yUmd4uMn
Oxford Bibliographies page on China's Civil War.
Seems to be free for everyone, but i dunno how long this will last so im just posting it here.
>>959539
I read "The Case For Christ A Few Years Ago" - as far as I can remember it was essentially "We know Jesus existed because people 2000 years ago had better memories.
>>961286
Noice.
Also related, Chinese lit.
>>960902
Two shitty self-inserted fanficts and one actual useful book? Seems about right.
>>961286
Anything full on Chinese Buddhism?
>>961308
Sorry m8, nothing that i could find.
This is more /lit/ i think but one of the free articles this month is on Traditional Chinese Poetry.
once again, just posting here if that stops being free for everyone to see.
http://pastebin.com/YmW2kWKN
>>961172
I hate the term 'progressive' so much
>>961325
Why exactly?
>>961322
On the same vein heres the bibiliography on India's caste system
http://pastebin.com/e02zPB3G
>>961329
It doesn't really mean anything, what makes one policy progressive and one regressive? It's simply a kind of, I'll admit, clever marketing thought up by leftists to make their ideas sound forward thinking. When some people talk about a 'progressive' tax policy, they are talking about a tax policy that taxes people more, except this isn't progressive at all, high taxation has literally been practised for as long as taxes have been about. The idea that it is progressive is just used to convince people that it's good.
>>960902
Fuck me if Joel doesn't look smug here.
>>961357
>yfw you realize he's Pepe
Someone flip the picture, and compare them.
>>961472
Book lists plus a visit to Libgen are all you need.
>>961472
The bibliographies in the pastebin are annotated
>>961490
>Libgen
Last time I tried to use it, it didn't work. So now I use sci-hub, but it only works for scientific papers and JSTOR articles (and maybe some other stuff)
>>961472
Because it eliminates the uncertainty of havinf to look around on the internet for your subject of interest and not being sure which book to choose. These articles are written by experts in the field from a respected institution (Oxford) and so you can more or less trust the descriptions they give you for each book. I suspect a lot of anons around here us them for school projects, but theyr great for history fans too. As for the fact that they're just a list: once you know what you're looking for at least half the books are usually available free on libgen and bookzz
>>961509
Libgen still works but you have to use the mirror links provided (usually can get the listed bookost of the time this way)
>>961018
is this bait?
>>961018
The first 5 books of the Old Testament is the Torah.
>>961019
aka protestant
>>961186
There is a way better version of that but it's not cached on Google anymore and I haven't seen it in about a year. Shame since it's such a good guide.
>>961509
Try Boozz. Also, just click the title of the book that is hyperlinked at the top and it should let you download.
>>961304
>the funny misanthropic british man who talks really fast said it some I'm going to mindlessly parrot it
>>961182
This is really a comprehensive reading list for /his/.
I feel like a lot of people are overlooking the link though, so I'll bump and post it again.
http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
>>959485
I have when people ask for a recommendation but leave it that. Really, read whatever interests you or at least tell us what that is and we can base suggestions from that.
Why do you idiots always ask such vague questions? Why do you never put any thought into it? It's astonishing. It's like the threads that are like "durr hey hombres which war was not good between ww1 and ww2????" FOR WHO? WHAT THEATRE? WHEN?
So many stupid fucking questions. Being told there are no stupid questions is the worst thing to ever be taught when you are not taught HOW to ask a question.
Does anyone have a good bibliography on Meiji Japan?
>>959485
i have a few GBs of various pdfs including history, philosophy, theory, economy, and also some grammar books and dictionaries for various languages. I'll post it all here soon as soon as i fill it some more with some essential books i'm still looking for
>>960752
Nice.
>>961094
>Nothing what I say contradicts with the Tolkien's statement
Let's go the evidence, shall we?
>That doesn't make his books catholic
>The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work
Verdict: you are retarded, learn to read.
>>961154
>all that Avarice
Feel myself sphincter recoiling looking at it
>>962985
Death of the Author
Checkmate faggot
>book is 90% based on works of pagan myth
>10% catholicism makes it totes a christian book guise!
>>962985
Other guy's status: completely and irreparably BTFO
>>959539
>history board
>believes in gods
Kek
>>961302
Just started reading the analysts yesterday. I'm a bit behind on reading in general in my life, but the text can be pretty interesting.
>>961350
Read Decline of the West.
>>961357
He did a Pepe
>>969048
I've been tempted to for a while, why do you recommend it?
>>969060
I'm a hundreds pages into it. He does a good job at debunking the term progressive.
>>969082
thanks for the rec anon, will get round to it
Yo, does anyone have the "Chinese Triad Society" section on Oxford Bibliographies?
>>960928
Underrated
I found Stokesbury's histories of the First and Second World Wars to be excellent. Not particularly detailed but they're well written and paint an effective picture of an interconnected Europe. Intriguing, lucid style that serves as a good general reference for both wars.
>>965393
>Posting on /his/
>Hasn't accepted the Lord Jesus Christ into his heart.
Kek
>>960752
nice I would only add the works of althusser, and zizek
>>971923
>Debs
Nice.
>>961715
I've no idea what you're referring to but I'd love to know.
Almost goes without saying, as I know lots of you probably read it as teenagers. But if you're interested in Roman History, this is literally essential. Not only is it pretty good and very readable, but it's been so enormously influential on latter Roman historiography that it really enhances your understanding of other texts you might read.
Speaking of books, you guys know of an good history of the Habsburgs? Also, a biography of Tocqueville.
Why are there so many marxist fucktards on this board? Fuck off with your garbage.
>>972781
I liked this book on the habsburgs:
http://www.amazon.com/Habsburg-Monarchy-1490-1848-Attributes-Perspective/dp/0333737288/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1460474231&sr=8-3&keywords=habsburg+monarchy+palgrave
on Tocqueville, going off my bibliography from a book on 19th century france:
george armstrong kelly, the humane comedy: constant, tocqueville and french liberalism
larry siedentop, tocqueville
Cheryl Welch, liberty and utility: the french ideologues and the transformation of liberalism
>>959485
https://youtu.be/8t9HaH7Iiic
>>961564
If you describe it I might possibly have it.
this one. kinda of related to /his/
>>961245
"You want better educators? Learn to choose better enemies." - Fred Nietzsche
>>972798
They all migrated here from /lit/. Also Marx is babies first philosopher so all the underage b&'s learn about him and think they're smart.
>>959485
whats a good site for downloading /his/ ebooks?
>>973766
bookzz
>>973513
Stopped reading at "Mein Kampf", I have read it and you must be literally retarded to recommend that book. Even if you like Hitlers opinions, the style in which the book is written is absolutely abominable and its so banally formulated that you want to womit
>>974346
It also has around four books related to holocaust denial and includes Martin Luther's notorious temper tantrum "On the Jews and their Lies".
>>961564
I have it
>>959485
On liberty
>>959485
>recommended reading
On this subject, what's a good comprehensive book on the history of Poland from antiquity to the partition?
>>973766
Libgen
>>975088
norman davies- god's playground vol.1 covers exactly that
"""""essential""""" reading lists are cancer
>>960752
Needs Zizek
Absolute Recoil is a good one
>>961186
>no Xenophon
REEE FUCKING REEEEEEEEEE
>>971923
Bernie Sanders is clearly not showing his true power level and is probably more based than he leads on
Does someone have The Cambridge history of the first war?
>>975515
probably I can't find it but there was a video where he completely shuts down identity politics.
Whipped this shitty info graphic up in over 9000 hours just for you /his/.
I'll probably make a better, more expansive one at some point.
>>976042
>A very brief into
>literally thousands upon thousands of pages
Holy shit anon. I like the Civil War too but damn.
>>977438
The Civil War is literally the single most covered subject in American history my friend.
There are literally THOUSANDS of books about the war, and I just listed the books I feel give a well rounded and general understanding of every aspect of the war without going too far into any specific subject.
>>961104
>Dostoyevsky's Demons
>literally the story of russian anarchist nihilism of Nechayev
>right wing
nice hijack faggot.
>>976042
I'm not optimistic if the only serious work of history there is McPhearson
t. someone who studies the Civil War but isn't interested in military history
>>977632
while dostoevsky tries to be balanced in his books, Demons is ultimately an indictment of the kind of revolutionary lunacy that nechaev engaged in senpai, even though nechaev was an absolute madman and imo not representative of revolutionaries in general (not that I'm saying they're good or bad though)
>>977661
ok, i now mentioned the reactionary trait next to the book, thought it meant the exact opposite point of view.
>>974811
Anyone have any of those in ebook formats?
>>961104
I'm glad Nietzsche wasn't dirtied by inclusion here, beyond the key adjective.
>>975515
I would have thought it political suicide to admit reading Lenin and Trotsky in the US, is it not? Has he read Nietzsche on socialism?
>>975470
Whenever you see them just pretend it says "recommended bibliography".
>>959485
Why not just appeal to canon?
>>978015
You should probably read Marx and Lenin if you have more than a passing interest in political history tbqh.
>>978086
Look at the context. In the book it appears more like "a list of authors I liked" than some apolitical appreciation of all sides to the story.
>>978097
Why are you surprised/disgusted that an openly socialist politician has read and admired socialist literature?
>>975459
Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for.
The Western Canon
(1/2)
Homer, Illiad
Homer, Odyssey
Plato, Meno
Plato, Republic
Plato, Symposium
Plato, Gorgias
Plato, Sophist
Plato, Apology
Plato, Crito
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedrus
Aristophanes, Clouds
Aristotle, Categories
Theophrastus, An Inquiry Into the Nature of Plants
Aristotle, On the Soul
Aristotle, Ethics
Aristotle, Politics
Aristotle, Physics
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Plato, Timaeus
Ptolemy, Almagest
Aristotle, On Interpretation
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
Euclid, Elements
Archimedes, On the Equilibrium of Planes
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Sophocles, Oedipus
Euripides, The Bacchae
Aristophanes, Birds
Herodotus, History
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
Plutarch, Lives
Copernicus, On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres
Kepler, Astronomia Nova
Apollonius, Conics
Holy Bible
Epictetus, Enchiridion
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Dante Divine Comedy
Augustine, Confessions
Anselm, Proslogion
Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Machiavelli, The Prince
Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
Montaigne, Essays
Shakespeare, Richard II
Shakespeare, Henry IV
Shakespeare, Othello
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Shakespeare, King Lear
Shakespeare, Macbeth
Descartes, Rules for Guiding the Mind
Descartes, Discourse on Method
Cervantes, Don Quixotes
Pascal, Pensees
Milton, Paradise Lost
Hobbes, Leviathan
Spinoza, Theologica Political Treatise
Liebniz, Discourses on Metaphysics
Bacon, Novum Organum
Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Kant, Foundation of Metaphysics of Morals
Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Madison, The Federalist Papers
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Tolstoi, War and Peace
>>978368
(2/2)
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Marx, Communist Manifesto
Marx, Capital
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments
Melville, Benito Cereno
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Wagner, Tristan and Isolde
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
William James, Psychology, A Briefer Course
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics
>>978368
>>978370
>no Aeneid
>>977649
I went with literature rather than Academic writings.
The stuff I picked is not intended to be anything more than a general primer on the war.
Also, how can you "study the civil war" without being interested in the military history? Do you just read about the politics or something?
Even then, the battlefield tactics and strategy were inseparable from a lot of what was going on the political scene. You can't understand things like Lee's invasions of the North or the capture of Vicksburg, among many, many others, without understanding both the political and military importance in them.
t. Confused Civil War Enthusiast
>>959539
Hahahaha Christians are such fucking retards. Anybody who thinks CS Lewis is profound or inspiring is a literal moron.
>>960902
Hahah good one but wrong.
Maybe Paradise Lost?
>>978109
I'm not. I asked if times have really changed so much that reading those authors isn't political suicide in a US presidential campaign. Sorry to have blasphemed the leader.
>>978793
Yeah generally in contrast to the vast majority of popular literature that deals with the tactics etc I look at the causes behind it/Reconstruction, primarily to do with race
It's just not like a "OMG STONEWALL JACKSON IS SO COOL" it's more like, what was "the South" and how did it conceptualize itself (hint: slavery and the white man). I guess I get frustrated with a lot of military history that focuses on like "the South could have won if ______" which typically ignores or obscures that the South did not win because of baked-in ideological limitations (which is not to say it could not have had its version of victory, merely that its own defeat was a kind of hamartia than poor decision-making by generals)
I mean the Civil War has deep, deep roots, and as Fields says, never ended, and so really, the majority of it is "politics"
Western Canon, 1 book per civilisation
>Gilgamesh
>Book of the Dead
>Homeric Epics
>Aeneid
>Faust
>Moby Dick
>>978370
>Communist Manifesto
>Tristan and Isolde
That list got more bizarre as it went on.
>>978899
Nice double dubs.
I can respect that. I'm the opposite, i've always been more interested in the battles and generals of the war. My own studies tend to concern the political and social background of the war in cases where they are tied inexplicably with the actual fighting itself. Not that i'm not interested in those kinds of things (the antebellum period is probably the most interesting period in American history when it comes to politics), but it's not really my focus.
>>978964
>Communist Manifesto
>Tristan and Isolde
Although they are not "western" per se, I would argue that they are important books to read for anyone brought up in the western tradition.
Know thy enemy as it were.
>>960752
>>960902
Scottish Enlightenment literature is the fruit of zealous protestantism senpai
>>979089
Yeah I mean it's not that I don't recognise the military aspect of it just a whole bunch of military stuff tends to be thinly veiled Lost Cause bullshit. Which is interesting in its own right but not something I want to spend too much time on
>>979372
Retarded rationale.
>>979372
How the fuck is the communist manifesto not western? Marx was born and raised in the west, and his critique was of western industrial capitalism. You couldn't get any more western than the communist manifesto.
>>980962
I don't consider Marx "western" because he founded an ideology which fundamentally opposes many long-standing Western values such as religion and individualism, and his ideology was/is championed by enemies of the West, e.g. the Soviet Union.
>>981147
Enlightenment thinkers such as Thomas Paine opposed religion. Are they also not western in your view?
>>981151
Thomas Paine is very Western.
Maybe he opposed religion, but he was also an American revolutionary who fought for individual liberty and believed in natural rights-- two very Western ideals.
To clarify, by "western" one does not strictly mean "from the west" (although the two usually coincide). It has a more general definition, usually meaning "of the Western intellectual tradition" or "having contributed to the development of Western civilization" etc.
>>979422
>Lost Cause
Only if you read things published before 1970
Avoid anything referencing Fitz Lee or Ewell, as they are the two responsible for starting that bullshit.
That being said, its hard to write an academic work that doesn't make the Union look retarded because they actually did get their asses kicked 9/10 times. The South lost hard politically, so they have to cling to the fact that they kicked ass on the battlefield in order to find a "silver lining" as it were.
What am I missing the most?
And how come Oxford's "First Philosophers" isn't included on this one?
>>983500
That list is pretty good, but it could use more Aristotle. I don't think I would begin with Metaphysics. Start with Categories, De Anima, and Politics.
>>960939
>Osteen
>Worst
He symbolizes the ideal protestant Christian in America, hell I'd go as far to say the ideal American. People on this website idolize Catholism too much when it's filled with a bunch of people who don't give two shits about religion, attending services just to feel like a part of the crowd. Protestantism says fuck that, and makes you interpret scripture on your own, and has more faithful members.
Are phenomenology and Heidigger worth reading? I'm trying to pick options for next year. There's a load of shit like "philosophy of migration and citizenship" I'll avoid like the plague and a load of similar analytic ones I'll take some of. But phenomenology and heidigger I know nothing about.
>>985901
Heidegger is absolutely worth reading, a little dense at times but he's worth the effort.
I was wondering if there are any decent history books about the Yugoslavia or Bosnia war?
>>985906
Not that anon, but I read Misha Glenny's The Balkans years ago and I absolutely loved it; it covers the 19th century up to 1999 in the region. She was a reporter, and has that style that personalizes the history at the start of each chapter, and then it unfolds into the actual historical facts. So you're not only grounded in that historical person's life and mindset, but you get the information as well. The book never drags even though it's almost 800 pages after notes and references, and I read it cover to cover in no time.
She recently republished it with a new chapter going from 1999 to 2012-ish. Looks like you can snag that thing used from $7-8 on Amazon too.
>>985923
He* not she, sorry famalam.
>>972798
Popper is the best you've got and he's not enough.
>>985923
I'll look into it. Seems like it would be an interesting read, anyway a while back I bought Kosovo: A Short History by Noel Malcolm, anyone know how it is in terms of accuracy?
>>961148
you should include "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism" and "Economic Theory of the Leisure Class" by Bukharin.
>>961148
also "Anarchism or Socialism" by Stalin.
>>973761
>every basic white boy isn't given a copy of Zarathustra or Antichrist to wean them.
>>961076
>what is authorial intent fallacy
>>986051
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_College_%28Annapolis/Santa_Fe%29#Reading_list
