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:
  1. Bergson, Creative Evolution
  2. Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (used)
  3. Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations
  4. Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (used)
  5. Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Monadology
  6. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (used)
  7. Spinoza, Ethics
  8. 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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