Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Great Books Boot Camp

So, I know that this is not reasonable for all of us, because some of us will have lives over the summer.  But for those of us who are going to be bored, and/or are dorks, etc., I was hoping I might find a comrade or two for a more arduous set of readings beyond the full class reading club, and beyond that happy entertaining world of novels.  

Possible readings would include:
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion 
Hobbes: Leviathan
(that's right, Calvin and Hobbes!)
JS Mill: (not sure what)
Federalist Papers
Freud
Boswell's Life of Johnson (man crush!)
Hegal: Philosophy of History
Marx: Communist Manifesto
Nietzsche's Ecce Homo (gotta see what is written under those chapter titles)
Another Greek Tragedy would be good, if anyone has a suggestion other than Oedipus


Also, what happened to Mr. Swift?? Canterbury Tales could be fun, too.  And Alessandra's favorite English teacher always said Moby Dick was the best novel ever, so we should probably read that.  

3 comments:

Mackenzie said...

you are a pretentious ass.

Rohita said...

I like that you thought of Philosophers as well as novelists...KUDOS!!

Hannah Rachootin said...

Roho, will you be my comrade in this quest for greatness?