Zedie wrote:Guys, give me a list of 10 books to read before I die.
Going to be commuting more in the next few weeks and need some reading material.
Going on an amazon binge tonight.
I need 10 books that will make me want to stay on the train for the whole day and f**k off work.
Books that make you read until sunrise.
Books that make your neck ache because you can't put them down.
Your top 10.
Go.
these are the most important ones for me, the ones that every single human being should read, im going to give you very "boring" books, of academic content, but they are all in a way pretty groundbreaking:
Ethics - Spinoza:Fundamental and very fun to read, this is a guy that keeps questioning himself to the point that you feel sorry/amazed by him.
Critique of Pure Reason - KantYou never study philosophy if you haven't read my friend Emmanuel
Being and Time - Martin Heidegger A very dark and twisted book the moment you start to understand it you realize that you didn't understand anything about it. It has the "Dasein" concept in it. Probably the book that i go back the most.
God and the State - Mikhail BakuninBakunin is fun, because he express every single Grievance that humans had since the beginning of time in such a simplistic yet beautiful way.
Dialectic of Enlightenment - Horkheimer & AdornoThis guys run away from frankfurt when the second world war started, Benjamin went to be an crazy outsider in Europe, they choose a happy/comfortable academic position in the USA. This book its humans trying to explain rational cruelty, its one of the first realizations that this God of enlightenment is like any other God.
Glas - DerridaOne of the most weirdest books i have read in my entire life, creepy. If you know Derrida you probably would not choose this cryptic book, but i just found it the most personal one.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison - Michel FoucaultXX century bible.
Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Deleuze & GuattariThey came to Kick laccan and Sartre in the ass, they neddle it.
Insult and the Making of the Gay Self - Didier EribonOne of the first books that i study about genre and sexuality, it helped me a lot.
Debt: The First 5000 Years - David GraeberThe last Wow that i have this year, the guy is embarked on a very ambitious project, that can make any marxist shit in his pants, a very interesting, highly academic approach to this problematic that is as old and relevant in todays world.