Tuesday, May 24, 2005
(1:25 PM) | Dave Belcher:
Books, Books, Bibliophilia, Consumption, Idolatry
I have recently picked up some really great books for pretty damn cheap.First of all, during my first visit to Powell's Bookstore in Chicago, I picked up the following:
1) Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended (Hardback), $10.00
2) Luce Irigaray, Marine Lover of Nietzsche (Hardback), $15.00
3) Karl Barth, The Gottingen Dogmatics, Vol. 1 (Hardback), $24.00
4) Juan Luis Segundo, Theology and the Church: A Response to Cardinal Ratzinger and a Warning to the Whole Church (Hardback), $6.00
5) Catherine Keller, Apocalypse Now and Then (Paperback), $6.00
...and I think I'm leaving a few out; this is also after passing up on some really great books one cannot find in most bookstores.
Then, just this past week, at a tent sale at Cokesbury Bookstore (United Methodist Bookstore), I got ~$500 worth of books for less than $30.00. Some of those titles included:
1) Allen Fitzgerald, Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (normally $75.00, I got this for about $5.00!)
2) J.M. Coetzee, Writings
3) Luther, Commentary on Romans
4) Joerg Rieger, ed., Methodist and Radical (Ted Jennings has a piece in this one)
5) L. Gregory Jones, Embodying Forgiveness
this is leaving a lot out...
If you aren't worried about the loss of your soul, or, for that matter, if you are convinced along with Deleuze and Guattari that with all of your attempts to subvert the capitalist symbolic order--deterritorialization--comes an inevitable reterritorialization, and thus you opt for Baudrillard's notion of "consume all the more" to throw the system into hyper-drive, then I reccomend that you visit your local Powell's (or whatever other cool used bookstore you have in town) or hunt down a good book tent-sale.
