Bryan W. Van Norden Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Leading scholar of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism; opinions my own; retweets are not endorsements. he/his

Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Alasdair MacIntyre
@rekmarks @HaneMaung I was afraid someone would ask that! Lol! I'm currently at home and my books are in my office. I'll look for some good references there, but there is a pretty good discussion, as I recall, in MacIntyre's book "Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry."
Paperback, 2016
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Daodejing
Laozi
@elementalbk @WilliamsAustinM Have you read Wang Bi's commentary on Laozi's Daodejing? https://t.co/D64UBOeweY
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction
Stephen C. Angle
And then Justin Tiwald (of @HKUniversity) and I co-edited Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy to provide an alternative to Chan for later Chinese philosophy, especially Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism. I'm pleased... 4/5 https://t.co/SUlunDSPlX
Paperback, 2017
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Democracy in America
Alexis De Tocqueville
"America is therefore one of the countries in the world where philosophy is least studied, and where the precepts of Descartes are best applied." —Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Paperback, 2002
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Posthumous Works Of Thomas De Quincey (1891)
Thomas de Quincey
How un-American is it that I am spending #SuperBowlSunday reading "Suspiria de Profundis" by Thomas De Quincey with my cat? https://t.co/57CMXZpOrf
Paperback, 2010
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Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy
David S. Nivison
@simonm223 @omnicronrho77 Taylor Carman and Bryan W. Van Norden, Review of Heidegger and Asian Thought in Sino-Platonic Papers, and David S. Nivison, "Moral Decision in Wang Yangming: The Problem of Chinese Existentialism" in Nivison, The Ways of Confucianism.
Paperback, 1999
$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom
Ordered! Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party https://t.co/vktaCJ2rAY
Paperback, 2016
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
Charles Taylor
@hughmarlowe2 @DeadPhilosophe5 @AnarresProject @pschofie79 @eschwitz @philosophypills Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self Agree! https://t.co/1G20LgbQcx
Paperback, 1992
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima
New Post on My Substack: Sex and Existentialism: Mishima's Controversial "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" https://t.co/Ei0neyTRpM
Paperback, 1994
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom
Tao Jiang
Eric Hutton's insightful review of Tao Jiang's "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China" just came out in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. https://t.co/BCf1xxKjq6
Paperback, 2021
$40.99$20.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book