Ike Sharpless 🦦 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@svateboje My top 1 is definitely Aristotle, after that it’s probably a top 10 with lots of five volume groupings (Whitehead, Deleuze, Arendt, Orwell, Plato, Thay, …). If comics count my current top author is Hellboy’s Mike Mignola. (And my currently owned Orwells are collected.)

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I haven’t finished anything this week, but am almost done with Jemisin’s Fifth Season. Still on Yong’s An Immense World and the Gulsg Archilelago, picked up some Plotinus and a big bio of Stalin (Oleg Khlevniuk), also picked up again on the Qu’ran, another audiobook.

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Also Stephen Fry’s Mythos and Brent Weeks’ Night Angel Nemesis (tho this last I will probably hold off on until I’m done with the Jemisin).

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The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History https://t.co/XAbsyshgNu via @instapaper

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The Notions of George Berkeley: Self, Substance, Unity and Power https://t.co/E4kz3hlRya via @instapaper

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@fustbariclation This is beginning to sound as old as Plato's Republic (core tension between family and other forms of allegiance - you seem to be wanting to just draw it out to the species line, which is what many socialist internationalists also want, in an sense)...not a new project after all?

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@squir_real That said I've long been fascinated by finitude and mathematical infinities, so...guilty as charged, no doubt. Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers is probably my favorite book on the topic!

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@pps_tx Recommend the book An Immense World by Ed Yong’s - it’s great fun.

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 ere must be a middle place between abstraction and childishness whereone can talk seriously about serious things.—Czesław Miłosz, "I Apologize" (epigraph of this book: https://t.co/o2PsWmbdXp)

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@XIIYIlZ That's quite broad! I have two paired recommendations, though - Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and Laozi's Tao te Ching. If you've read either of those I have others... On the laws of nature I like Lee Smolin and Carlo Rovelli's works, which are more in the vein of pop sci.