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Saturday, May 26, 2007
(9:55 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Book Shopping
The past couple days, I have been in an incredibly intense book-shopping mode. I've got my newfound early modern fetish to serve, plus it's the Seminary Co-op's annual member sale. Since I am financially secure for a change, I decided that I would give myself about $100 to spend on books -- this is the first time in years that I've felt able to go book shopping without reproaching myself afterward. Anyway, here's what I got:- Bergson, Creative Evolution
- Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (used)
- Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations
- Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (used)
- Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Monadology
- Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (used)
- Spinoza, Ethics
- Sterne, Tristam Shandy (used)
All I need is to get some Locke, and I can set to work getting this early modern thing out of my system. I have an exam area in philosophy of religion, so I figure I'll read one main work of each, then one religion-centered work. In general, my remaining exams will be a great way for me to get a proper education, to make up for all that time squandered reading Elizabethan poets in college. (Why on earth did I read the complete works of Edmund Spenser?)
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