Jake 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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The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom
Frantz FanonJakeone of the things that struck me most in Frantz Fanon's psychiatric writings in the Alienation and Freedom volume is his suggestion that the folk belief in djinn possession had less stigma in Algeria than european psychiatric diagnosis
Paperback, 2020
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard PrestonJakeThe Hot Zone by Richard Preston, a book on Ebola outbreaks and a couple close calls https://t.co/TDRYcGYgpu
Paperback, 1999
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Allegory of the Cave: Plato
PlatoJakeremembering back to my MA when I wrote a paper that asked "who freed the prisoner from Plato's allegory of the cave?" like I was going to solve some ancient detective story
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Illness: The Cry of the Flesh
Havi CarelJake@Helenreflects Havi Carel also writes on this as "bodily doubt" in her Phenomenology of Illness
Paperback, 2018
$42.99$21.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Madness: A Philosophical Exploration
Justin GarsonJakereading @justin_garson's Madness and impressed by its "long overdue apologia for the magicians and purifiers", which I think is a nuanced and needed take
Paperback, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.: Funny Gifts for Under 10 Dollars Shopping List
Newprint PublishingJakestarting to think that quoting Marx in my cover letters is too polarizing and risky but I still hope that "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" will resonate with someone
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The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality
Joel Michael ReynoldsJakeRT @joelmreynolds: If you would like to pick up The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality for $13.77 (yup, seriously), just use…
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality
Matthew RatcliffeJake@DenkenAnalysis I think Matthew Ratcliffe's Feelings of Being does the best job of this
Paperback, 2008
$94.00$69.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Phenomenology of Pain
Saulius GeniusasJake@HaneMaung @unreliable_nrt -E M Cioran's work isn't explicitly phenomenology but has a lot of accounts of suffering -Saulius Geniusas' The Phenomenology of Pain (I've been meaning to pick it up, haven't read, saw him give a talk a decade ago that stuck with me) -Sartre's War Diaries' passage on eye strain
Paperback, 2022
$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Alberto ManguelJakereorganizing your books is all fun and games until you stumble across your copy of Walter Benjamin and have to obligingly re-read "Unpacking my Library"
Paperback, 2019
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book