Books like The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
12 books with a reading profile close to The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a demanding read.
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, academic
Wassily Kandinsky identifies painting as a psychological tool rather than a method for reproducing physical reality.
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, academic
Roland Barthes examines the nature of photography through a dual framework: the studium and the punctum.
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Essays of three decades
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
This collection brings together sixteen of Mann’s non-fiction pieces written between 1911 and 1937, focusing on the intellectual heritage of Europe.
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, academic
Joseph Campbell argues that a single structural pattern, the monomyth, underpins the sacred stories and legends of civilizations across history.
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On Free Choice of the Will
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
In this dialogue, Augustine investigates the origin of evil and the mechanics of human volition.
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Undoing Gender
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, academic
Judith Butler addresses the political and social conditions that define which lives are recognized as human.
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The Hymns of the Ṛgveda
by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, Jagdish Lal Shastri
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
This volume presents the complete English translation of the oldest Sanskrit text, a collection of over one thousand sacrificial hymns addressed to deities such as Indra, Agni, and Varuna.
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
In this foundational work, Sigmund Freud argues that an inherent friction exists between human biological drives and the regulations of organized society.
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The Paradoxes of Art
by Alan Paskow
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
In "The Paradoxes of Art," Alan Paskow addresses the ontological status of fictional entities and why humans feel genuine emotions toward characters they know do not exist.
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The Struggle for Recognition
by Axel Honneth
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
Axel Honneth constructs a social theory centered on the premise that human identity depends on successful interaction within three distinct spheres of recognition: love, rights, and solidarity.
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