📚Philliteracy📚 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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'Those who do not learn from twitter threads and GIFs about the history of philanthropy are doomed to repeat them.'
The Gift
Marcel Mauss📚Philliteracy📚Born OTD in 1872, French social anthropologist Marcel Mauss. His 1925 essay "The Gift" established many key ideas on how gift exchange functions as a method of social control & status. A core text for students of philanthropy. To cite, rather than actually read, of course...😁 https://t.co/N8UhbGnkUn
Paperback, 2016
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Major Barbara
Bernard Shaw📚Philliteracy📚Famously George Bernard Shaw explored issues around tainted donations in his 1905 play “Major Barbara” (which revolves around an arms manufacturer and his Salvationist daughter, and the ethical questions this throws up): https://t.co/snfhnzGf7i
Hardcover, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume📚Philliteracy📚Died OTD in 1776, Scottish philosopher David Hume. In his 1751 "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" Hume argued that charity is a virtue, but may have undesirable consequences if done indiscriminately - a view that would prove very influential in the C19th & C20th. https://t.co/72g6QbmEvM
Paperback, 1999
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The red one (1918) by: Jack London (novel)
Jack London📚Philliteracy📚Jack London, from his short story "Confession": https://t.co/9Wq21jpT1r
Paperback, 2016
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The Data of Ethics
Herbert Spencer📚Philliteracy📚Reading Herbert Spencer's "The Data of Ethics", and surprised to find (in amongst all the social Darwinism) this pretty clear argument that those who have benefited from society need to contribute to its maintenance through engagement in public life (inc presumably philanthropy): https://t.co/wwkgfsQGn1
Paperback, 2024
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx📚Philliteracy📚Died OTD in 1895 Socialist, political theorist & co-author with Karl Marx of "The Communist Manifesto", Friedrich Engels. He was a staunch advocate for the positive power and value of philanthropy, and... Nah, not really. He totally hated it. Psych. https://t.co/InE6v0EspJ
Paperback, 1998
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Typee: Large Print
Herman Melville📚Philliteracy📚Born OTD in 1819, US writer and poet Herman Melville. He is best known for his novel "Moby Dick", but in an 1853 short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" he offers a pragmatic argument for adopting a philanthropic outlook as a way of avoiding trouble... https://t.co/TzYawppT4g
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith📚Philliteracy📚Died OTD in 1790, Scottish economist & philosopher Adam Smith. In his 1776 book "The Wealth of Nations" he gave a highly influential formulation of the idea that self-interest, not altruism, should be seen as the fundamental state of human nature: https://t.co/YE8hpf7HJw
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The History of the Grecian war, in Eight Books: 2
Thucydides Thucydides📚Philliteracy📚Qn 1: Is egoism (i.e. self-interest) or altruism (i.e. concern for others) fundamental to human nature? In the red corner here we have Thomas Hobbes, arguing that we are all basically bastards. (I’m paraphrasing here, but it’s close enough): https://t.co/HaSKQRwMlA
Paperback, 2023
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Middlemarch
George Eliot📚Philliteracy📚Born OTD in 1819, novelist and poet Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot. In her 1871 novel "Middlemarch", Eliot adds to the widespread critique of "telescopic philanthropy"(i.e. where donors are seen as focusing on distant problems whilst ignoring those right around them): https://t.co/W93wnCXb3x
Hardcover, 2011
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