Book 16 Librivox Machievelli The Prince
This Book, Book 16 took about 3-4 days to ‘read’. Even using Audiobooks is challenging hence my decision to archive all Audiobook Material which is also useful for bumping up total so I head towards the 24 Books mark which is 2 books a month; a pathetic total.
What have I learn’t from Machievelli? he uses [...]
Book 11 Doris Lessing ‘The Golden Notebook’ read in a novelistic interlude between heavyweight Philosophy Tomes NEW
This is Book 11 this Year making Martha Nussbaum ‘Upheaval of Emotions The Intelligence of the Emotions’ is Book 12 a work in progress.
I noticed this book in Tesco and decided to buy it as the Storyline looked interesting and pertinent and she also won the Nobel Prize for Literature making this the first Nobel [...]
Book 10: Naomi Klein ‘The Shock Doctrine’ or watch a new phenomenon at work!
This is a shocking account of Shock Therapy which tells how Milton Friedman. Chicago School Economists one size fits all Policies . Resulted in gross inequalities and poverty for many Nations round the World.
She shows us how . Shock Therapy Regimes are imposed to circumvent grassroots resistance which is an eye [...]
Book 9: Charles Taylor ‘Sources of the Self: the making of Modern Identity’ a Six Month read into my first adventures into ’selves’
This book is the start of me formally attempting to reply to the Research Draft Proposal Draft with something pertaining to a sensible answer without of course having the elementary qualifications those in Academia are blessed to have Charles Taylor is part of two Philosophers I am reading that attempt to go beyond [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book 8 Clare Boylan ‘The Agony and the Ego’
Clare Boylan’s Book ‘The Agony and Ego’ could be happily read alongside my other Bible’ ‘Becoming a Writer’ by Dorothea Brand. It is basically an edited Compilation that theoretically could be re done in cycle, every now and then by a well known Author who has contacts with the great and the good of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book 7 Milan Kundera An Unbearable Lightness of Being
Sexuality, infidelities contradiction love of Tereza. Tomas Surgeon Six fortuities that brought them together reeled off factoid style. Sabina, long term Mistress. The Prague Spring, The juxtaposition of sexuality and the Prague Spring. Educated philosophical, philosophers used to make a point, well written, clear, love life, male sexual appetite, frequent sex references, lots and lots [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book 5 ‘Some said it thundered’ and Book 6 ‘Cultural Locations of Disability’ Mitchell and Synder 2006
Books Five and Six David Pytches ‘Some said it thundered’ and Synder and Mitchell ‘Cultural Locations of Disability’
First David Pytches ‘Some said it thundered’
Coming from a man of God with an established Ministry built on godly integrity, David Pytches like others in the Vineyard and Anglican Communion such as Stibbe have let us down.
Revelation captures [...]
Book No 3 ‘The Broken Window’ Jeffrey Deaver
Another book to get me wondering if I am doing the right thing but too much operating online.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am in love with my Computer (Desktop) and I am now a committed Laptop fan. (My family wonder if they did the right thing referring me to Laptop Land [...]
3,049 verbatim type words written today now for some reading at night a slow read through Charles Taylor ‘Sources of the Self’
3000 + words done today one thousand at a time, phase by phase.
I have not always reported back when I have done the work so I do myself an disservice.
Book 2 Gang Leader for a Day is read so TWO BOOKS this year! I think I may have Curse of Philosophy books that even if [...]
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I am drawing near to the end of Charles Taylor’s ‘Sources of the Self’
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I am drawing towards the end of that massive tome that is Charles Taylor ‘Sources of the Self’ which from what I have seen may bear similarities to Bertrand Russell ‘History of Western Philosophy’ another unknown tome from another as yet unknown Philosopher in the Analytic tradition; which as you might expect if you are [...]
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