Nolen Gertz 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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Citizen Kane
Orson WellesCitizen Kane on a plane. Gonna see if I can make Orson Welles rise from the read... https://t.co/UtBDMyyOFX
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Nihilism
Nolen GertzRT @VassilisSide: Just an excellent book. Nihilism by Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire https://t.co/q5dqqjKJN4
Paperback, 2019
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Liberty: (Original Edition)
J. S. MillSpent four hours debating cancel culture with my students while working through Mill's "On Liberty" and I think we solved it...
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The Wild Duck
Henrik IbsenReading Ibsen's 1884 play The Wild Duck (translated by Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor) about the "life-lie", the idea that some people need lies in order to maintain their happiness because the truth would be too horrible to bear. Seems timely somehow... https://t.co/Cf9JraGSJd
Paperback, 2021
$9.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping10% off
Phaedrus
PlatoFoucault on ChatGPT, or on the difference between trying to "say the non-said" and wanting to "collect the already-said" in Plato's Phaedrus... https://t.co/nz4eF4tobE
Paperback, 2005
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno
Dante AlighieriDante's Inferno + Adventure Time = https://t.co/oJzg6OCYso
Paperback, Mass Market, 1982
$7.95Member price:$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Victor PapanekVictor Papanek, "Design for the Real World" (1973) https://t.co/fUqdbn5cnk
Paperback, 2005
$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gorgias
PlatoClearly we should have prepared for the pandemic by reading Plato's Gorgias... https://t.co/j69useHFqS
Paperback, 2008
$8.94Member price:$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. DickJust finished reading Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968). Great novel. Hope someone makes a film adaptation of it some day...
Paperback, 1996
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sexual Contract: 30th Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
Carole PatemanLost track of time adding slides for Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract" because I love torturing myself by changing my lectures at the last minute...
Paperback, 2018
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book