Carlin Romano author of the new book America the Philosophical lists five of his favorite idiosyncratic philosophy books - must read list here
The Psychology of Philosophers by Alexander Herzberg:
You may know that Schopenhauer threw an old lady down the stairs, but had you heard that Rousseau accused his enemies of giving him invisible ink so he couldn’t write his Confessions?
On The Meaning of Life by Will Durant:
Durant wrote to scores of famous thinkers and asked them to reply to a single question: What is the meaning of life? Gandhi answered, “You have asked me to write at leisure and at length if I can. Unfortunately, I have no leisure and therefore writing at length is an impossibility.”
The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought by Ben-Ami Scharfstein :
Why Spinoza staged spider fights while not leaving his house for three months, and other key biographical details.
John Dewey in China: To Teach and To Learn by Jessica Ching-Sze Wang:
Wang’s book, apart from its amusing reports of a great thinker on tour, provides a useful lens through which to view current U.S.-Chinese understandings and misunderstandings.
If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers by Jack Bowen:
If you brake for big ideas, the flap copy declares, this is the paperback original for you. Bowen, a philosophy teacher at the Menlo School in California, has made an excellent case that when we’re stuck in traffic and the one-liner ahead sends our minds reeling—“Why Do Psychics Have to Ask For Your Name?” or “We Kill People to Show People That Killing People is Wrong”—we’re on the road to philosophy.
The Psychology of Philosophers by Alexander Herzberg:
You may know that Schopenhauer threw an old lady down the stairs, but had you heard that Rousseau accused his enemies of giving him invisible ink so he couldn’t write his Confessions?
On The Meaning of Life by Will Durant:
Durant wrote to scores of famous thinkers and asked them to reply to a single question: What is the meaning of life? Gandhi answered, “You have asked me to write at leisure and at length if I can. Unfortunately, I have no leisure and therefore writing at length is an impossibility.”
The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought by Ben-Ami Scharfstein :
Why Spinoza staged spider fights while not leaving his house for three months, and other key biographical details.
John Dewey in China: To Teach and To Learn by Jessica Ching-Sze Wang:
Wang’s book, apart from its amusing reports of a great thinker on tour, provides a useful lens through which to view current U.S.-Chinese understandings and misunderstandings.
If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers by Jack Bowen:
If you brake for big ideas, the flap copy declares, this is the paperback original for you. Bowen, a philosophy teacher at the Menlo School in California, has made an excellent case that when we’re stuck in traffic and the one-liner ahead sends our minds reeling—“Why Do Psychics Have to Ask For Your Name?” or “We Kill People to Show People That Killing People is Wrong”—we’re on the road to philosophy.
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