Here is a list of books from other authors that I believe are good or important reads generally related to the issues I deal with here on the blog at kulturCritic. I hope you find them useful and/or interesting. Feel free to post comments on any of them as you feel inspired. I will continually update the booklist as needed. If any one would like to add to it just email me or post it to your comment and suggest I add it.
Coming Home To The Pleistocene, Paul Shepard
Saving The Appearances: A Study In Idolatry, Owen Barfield
Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Phenomenology Of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Evolution Of Political Society, Morton Fried
Nature and Madness, Paul Shepard
The Recovery Of The West, Marvin Bram
The Perception Of The Environment, Tim Ingold
The Western Illusion Of Human Nature, Marshall Sahlins
The Tender Carnivore and The Sacred Game, Paul Shepard
Paul Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance
The End Of Time, J Barbour
Transcultural Experiments, Mikhail Epstein
The Visible and the Invisible, M Merleau-Ponty
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
The Spell Of The Sensuous, David Abram
In Search of the Primitive, Stanley Diamond
The End Of History and the Last Man, F. Fukuyama
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Primitive Social Organization, Service
The Future of an Illusion, Freud
Social Contract, Rousseau
Democracy In America
How Natives Think, L Levy-Bruhl
The Phenomenon of Life, Hans Jonas
The Presence of the Word, Walter Ong
Theodore Roszak, Where The Wasteland Ends
I am surprised you don’t have any books by Marija Gimbutas. She was an archaeologist who investigated sites in Eastern Europe and found clear evidence of egalitarian societies that had no weapons, but were rich in culture and art.
Thank you Ellen, for the reference. I had never explored her work… but now I will, sandy
Ellen – It seems she has performed much of the research supporting folks I have worked with, e.g., Mircea Eliade. Great stuff.
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My suggestion for a good, enlighten read is a book by Dionysios Farasiotis. The title of Mr. Farasiotis book is: the Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios. Mr. Farasiotis is an Orthodox Christian, a Greek and the book is about his spiritual journey. His most telling writings are about Elder Paisios. His other discourses are almost as pungent and they are the fruition of his seeking answers to timeless questions.
thanks for the tip, Darrell.
An older book that is Prescient regarding these issues is
“Unconscious Civilization” By John Ralston Saul published in 1995.
Michael
Interesting recommendation, Michael. Have looked him up. Good critiques, as far as they go. But, it seems as though he might be stuck as an apologist for the system (only an earlier version). But, I promise to read more; am ordering his last work. sandy