From: "Joe E. Dees" jdees0@students.uwf.edu
To: extropians@extropy.com
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 01:28:22 -0500
Subject: Re: if one book, which and why?
I would have to mention several, and these just to provide a
foundation from which to build:
- (1) Mind and Nature, by Gregory Bateson
- (2) On Meaning, by A.J. Greimas
- (3) The Spell of the Sensuous, by David Abram
- (4) The Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler
- (5) The Sex Contract, by Helen E. Fisher
- (6) The Guru Papers, by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
- (7) Buddhism Without Beliefs, by Stephen Batchelor
- (8) The End of History and the Last Man, by Francis
Fukuyama
- (9) The Tao is Silent, by Raymond Smullyan
- (10) Women, Fire and Dangerous things, by George Lakoff
- (11) The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod
- (12) The Adapted Mind, by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides and
John Tooby
- (13) Uniquely Human, by Philip Lieberman
- (14) The Context of Self, by Richard M. Zaner
- (15) The Human Use of Signs, by John Deely
- (16) Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning, by Eugene
Gendlin
- (17) Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self, by Michael
Lewis and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
- (18 and 19) The Field of Consciousness and Marginal
Consciousness, both by Aron Gurwitsch
- (20 and 21) The Principles of Genetic Epistemology and The
Equilibration of Cognitive Structures, both by Jean Piaget
- (22) Making Silent Stones Speak, by Kathy D. Schick and
Nicholas Toth
- (23) Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution, edited
by Kathleen R. Gibson and Tim Ingold
- (24) Investigations into the Origin of Language and
Consciousness, by Tran Duc Thao
- (25) The Phenomenology of Perception, by Maurice
Merleau-Ponty
- (26) Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger
- (27) The Crisis of European Sciences, by Edmund Husserl
- (28) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S.
Kuhn
- (29) The Laws of Form, by H. Spencer-Brown [should be G.
Spencer-Brown]
- (30) Chance and Chaos, by David Ruelle
- (31) Biology as Ideology, by R.C.Lewontin
- (32) Frontiers of Complexity, by Peter Coveny and Roger
Highfield
- (33) The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
- (34 and 35) Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous
Idea, both by Daniel C. Dennett
- (36 and 37) Psychosemantics and A Theory of Content and Other
Essays, both by Jerry A. Fodor
- (38) Simulacra and Simulations, by Jean Baudrillard
- (39) The Culture of the Copy, by Hillel Schwartz
- (40) The Logic of Practice, by Pierre Bourdieu
- (41) The Practice of Everyday Life, by Michel de Certeau
- (42) What Computers (Still) Can't Do, by Hubert Dreyfus
Some are harder reading than others, but the issues they address
are both central and fundamental, two good indicators of
significance.