July 02, 2015

Ten highly recommended books

My first reread of Bertrand Russell’s history of philosophy in nearly 30 years. The refreshing thing about Russell, whatever his faults, is that he is so damn clear. A publisher once remarked that Russell still sells big even now, and it’s actually not hard to see why. Posted by doctorzamalek

a great, new work; serious social theory for scientists too 17 Dec. 1997
By daum@socrates.berkeley.edu Published on Amazon.com
For this reader, Bruno Latour's book is one of the most ambitious, original, and important reformulations of social theory since 1989.

blogs.ssrc.org/tif/minding-the-modern/

Thomas Pfau's Minding the Modern offers its readers one of the most substantial historical discussions now available on the relationship between human will, ...

In my opinion, The Atman Project is Ken Wilber's best work, even though it is one of his earliest works. Ken did his homework with volumes of cross-cultural research, and came up with some astounding results in terms of how the individual human develops.

https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=8120819322
Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - ‎Preview

regarding the nature of human consciousness. Ken Wilber's spectrum psychology does not try to describe the complete spectrum of human experience within one psychological system. He creates an interpretation of human consciousness  ...


www.amazon.in/Justice-Nature-Geography...Harvey/dp/1557866813

"This surely is a most important book and one to turn to againand again as David Harvey′s work never fails to bechallenging." Linda McDowell, University  ...

https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=0415581095

Originally published in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole.


https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=0631163026
Terry Eagleton - 1991 - ‎No preview - ‎More editions

Wide in span, as well as morally and politically committed, this is Terry Eagleton's major work to date. It forms both an original enquiry and an exemplary introduction.


https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=022602007X
Leela Gandhi - 2014 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first ...

By Don Salmon on March 11, 2015
“Beyond Physicalism” – the result of an expansion of the CTR group that produced “Irreducible Mind” – is, I believe, one of the most important signs in recent years of the impending global shift in consciousness predicted by such 20th century luminaries as Jean Gebser, Teillhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo. Previously, I had thought that perhaps Dean Radin’s 1997, “The Conscious Universe” was one of the more pivotal books in terms of pointing toward this imminent shift. However, “Beyond Physicalism” is such a broad, highly intelligent (and highly readable) volume that I think it will come to be seen as the sign of a major turning point for modern science.


For several decades, Michael Murphy has sponsored a variety of seminars at Esalen (the institute he founded) aimed at advancing human potential. “Beyond Physicalism” (like Kelly’s previous edited volume, “Irreducible Mind”) is the product of the longest running seminar in Esalen history, 

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