Core Frameworks
- Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (PDF)
- Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, & Murray Silverstein, A Pattern Language (PDF)
- Martin Daly & Margo Wilson, Homicide
- Philippe Rochat, Others in Mind: The Social Origins of Self-Consciousness
- Roy Baumeister, Meanings of Life
- Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theater
- Aidan Kavanagh, On Liturgical Theology
- Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Peripheral Frameworks
- Donald E. Brown, Human Universals
- Alex Messoudi, Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture & Synthesize the Social Sciences
- Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, & Reginald Adams Jr., Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
- Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (PDF)
- Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (text)
- Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Terror
- Michael Lesy, Wisconsin Death Trip
- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (PDF)
- David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been
- Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- Adam Seligman & Robert Weller, Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
- Roger Schank, Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory
- Linda Dégh, American Folklore and the Mass Media
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (PDF
- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (PDF)
- Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
Journals
Novels
Finally.
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ReplyDeleteB. Traven! Cool! His life is really interesting, I think. German author Kurt Tucholsky praised him while still being aware that his german was lacking in some respects. (By the way, Tucholsky most likely killed himself in his swedish exile.)
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ReplyDeleteHave you read Rat: A Novel by Andrzej Zaniewski? It's really quite extraordinary in that it's told from the point of view of a rat. Not in a dopey anthropomorphic manner, but rather based on the what's known about actual rat behavior through biological studies. The descriptive power of the writing alone makes the book worth reading. But the story itself is intriguing. While it tells the account of a rat's life, the book is commentary on human behavior, and not probably not in a way most folks would welcome. At any rate, a great book.
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