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Bit of a broad question but anyone got any books which have really blown their mind?

fite club

right now Alfred North Whitehead's 'Modes Of Thought' is doin it for me...

well yes
a book (awful name) called 'mans search for meaning' by viktor frankel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning

'Freedom from the Known' is a classic.

I like Albert Camus, The Stranger is my favourite. Some of Bertrand Russell's stuff is good too (and easy to read).

Hmmm decisons decisons, Fight Club looks like a good novel; been meaning to read that for time lol. Modes of Thought and some of the Bertrand Russell books look big.

-dubson- wrote:, Fight Club looks like a good novel; been meaning to read that for time lol.

I wasn't being serious... the movies better anyway.


I've got some Nietzsche stuff (antichrist is probably the best out of what I've read), Plato's Republic (fucking bampot) and some John Stuart Mill stuff which is pretty interesting.

Most of the time I've found it a bit of a slog to get through though, so yeah reccomendations on anything that's a bit more of a easier read would be great.

danrev wrote:

-dubson- wrote:, Fight Club looks like a good novel; been meaning to read that for time lol.

I wasn't being serious... the movies better anyway.

Lol, obviously not the best in terms of a proper Philosophy book, you reminded me i want to read it though!

read shit by bukowski

robert anton wilson

firky wrote:I like Albert Camus, The Stranger is my favourite. .

the plague is wicked too.

Then read 'notes from the underground' by Dostoevsky. being human is ugly shit.

not philosophy but you should read the god delusion.

Kind of questions the very nature of science, so it's kind of philosophical. But yeah, mind blowing book.

abelard wrote:

firky wrote:I like Albert Camus, The Stranger is my favourite. .

the plague is wicked too.

Then read 'notes from the underground' by Dostoevsky. being human is ugly shit.

I'm trying to find a copy of The Brothers Karamazov because everyone says it is amazing. Have you read it and if so would you recommend it?

firky wrote:I like Albert Camus, The Stranger is my favourite.

i just finished that for the second time today and got so much out of it this time round
but ye, camus is brilliant, and i love the way he writes so thats its easy to understand, some philosophical writers seem to just run rings around me:lol:

Sophies world. bout a girl who gets philiosophy lessons, and then it gets all wierd and matrixy. basically a history of philosophy in novel form.

also the end of mr y. about a girl who finds this ancient drug that kind of lets u surf peoples minds. then gets very deep into physics/philosophy. more of an easy read than sophies world.

Not so keen on Bertrand Russell... philosophy departments all over the country are still in love with him

Mark Fisher (Capitalist Realism); Marshall Berman (All That's Solid Turns Into Air, The Politics of Authenticity); David Harvey (The Condition of Postmodernity)

...and Marx of course - a great place to start is The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Alex Callinicos. (whatever else you read, read this!)

Philosophy for dummies.


I'm not laughing.

NilsFG wrote:Philosophy for dummies.


I'm not laughing.

i dipped into that a few time, mainly for the history of philosophy but imo the author presents theism as the only viable philosophy, he pushes his own beliefs way too much and gives others too little time for it to be considered as giving a balanced overview of western philosophy. utilitarianism, nihilism, even existentialism barely get a mention.
its like he uses the '... for dummies' franchise to sell his own views, which appear to be based on the fact that he had a lost volleyball returned to him by strangers !

actually, thinking about it, it is just philosophy for dummies. the only usefullness i got out of it was the fact that it gave a list of historically eminent philosophers to read up on.