Ellie Anderson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College | Co-host of @Overthink_pod. Phenomenology/poststructuralism, hermeneutic labor, feminist philosophy of love

Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir
Judith G. Coffin
My book review of Judith Coffin's book, Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, is just out in Simone de Beauvoir Studies! @SDB_Studies https://t.co/UOxzPrHcW4 @judygcoffin
Hardcover, 2020
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Against Everything: Essays
Mark Greif
@rochellehd Mark Greif, Against Everything
Paperback, 2017
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics
Christina Howells
@WilliamMParis I think he's so underrated. So much of what ppl like about Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and so on is already in Sartre. I like Christina Howells' work on this!
Paperback, 1998
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The Origins of Philosophy: Its Rise in Myth and the Pre-Socratics
Drew A. Hyland
@morallawwithin Primary lit with helpful overview chapters or introductions: The Presocratics Reader (Ed. McKirahan) and Drew Hyland’s The Origins of Philosophy
Paperback, 1973
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies
Matthew Strohl
The question of whether Nicolas Cage is secretly the greatest actor of our time has haunted me ever since we interviewed @strohltopia about his wonderful book Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies. The interview is finally out now, and it's so fun and discusses tons of good-bad movies!
Paperback, 2022
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Being Singular Plural
Jean-Luc Nancy
Being cannot be anything but being-with-one-another, circulating in the with and as the with of this singularly plural coexistence. - Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural
Paperback, 2000
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Perry Zurn
So good to see our most recent @overthink_pod guests and celebrate their book Curious Minds at this year’s SPEP conference! Listen to @perryzurn and @DaniSBassett ‘s interview with us if you haven’t yet, and check out their wonderful book, Curious Minds 😊 https://t.co/E2E4yup2QM
Paperback, 2023
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben
@haymarketbooks Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees 🙃
Hardcover, 2016
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Transformative Experience
L. A. Paul
@Helenreflects Was just reading Paul’s Transformative Experience, and tasting durian is a running example of an epistemically transformative experience! I wonder whether durian candy counts 😝
Paperback, 2016
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Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought
John T. Lysaker
@KirchinSimon I’d also recommend John Lysaker’s book Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought on this topic https://t.co/zRbKzXhLuc
Paperback, 2021
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