Books like Six Memos for the Next Millennium
12 books with a reading profile close to Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino. Deep, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.
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On Photography
by Susan Sontag
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Susan Sontag examines how the camera functions as an instrument of surveillance, appropriation, and moral detachment.
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Duineser Elegien
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
The ten elegies bridge the divide between flawed human mortality and the terrifying perfection of the Angel.
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Man and Superman
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
In this four-act drama, George Bernard Shaw uses the character of John Tanner, an intellectual revolutionary, to argue that women are the primary pursuers in human courtship.
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by Aeschylus
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Aeschylus's trilogy, the only complete surviving set of Greek tragedies, follows the house of Atreus after the Trojan War.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Gilgamesh, the ruler of Uruk, dominates his subjects until the gods create Enkidu, a feral man, to challenge him.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
by Brad Inwood
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
This collection of scholarly essays provides a technical map of the Stoic philosophical system from its origins in the Hellenistic period through its Roman developments.
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De rerum natura
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Titus Lucretius Carus presents a systematic defense of Epicurean physics and ethics through six books of dactylic hexameter.
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The Burnout Society
Also deep · philosophy, dense
Byung-Chul Han argues that Western society has shifted from a disciplinary model defined by prohibitions to an achievement-oriented model defined by positive pressure.
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Dead Souls
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense
Chichikov, a mysterious gentleman of middling rank and no obvious fortune, drives a britzka into a provincial Russian town and charms the local officials.
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Existentialism is a Humanism
Also deep · philosophy, dense
Modified from a transcript of his 1945 lecture, Sartre’s text defends existentialism against accusations of nihilism and quietism.
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The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle provides a technical examination of the Stagirite’s surviving corpus, emphasizing the integration of philological precision with philosophical analysis.
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After Virtue
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Alasdair MacIntyre argues that contemporary moral discourse is in a state of terminal disarray because the Enlightenment project failed to provide a rational justification for objective morality.
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