Random books from estern's library

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke

Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Sacred Canopy : Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion by Peter L. Berger

The Birth of Tragedy/On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Poetry of being : [lectures on the philosophy of Rabbi Kook] by Yosef Ben Shlomo

Members with estern's books

Member connections

Friends: ALux, Doug1943, menglidong, reuchlin

RSS feeds

Recently-added books

estern's reviews

Reviews of estern's books, not including estern's

Member: estern

CollectionsOn Reading Shelf (4), Partially Read (134), Read (116), Your library (507), Wishlist (1), Currently reading (8), To read (3), Read but unowned (28), All collections (543)

ReviewsNone

TagsPhilosophy (147), Jewish Philosophy (55), Religion (47), Literature (43), Israel (20), Science (17), Bible (14), Holocaust (14), Jewish History (14), Christianity (14) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

GroupsAmerican History, Baseball, Dostoevsky, Ethical Theory, Philosophy and Theory, Political Conservatives, Russian books and language

Favorite authorsNone

Account typepublic, lifetime

Connection NewsConnection News

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/estern (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/estern (library)

Common KnowledgeSeries (56), Awards (104), Characters (737), Places (186)

Member sinceJul 6, 2006

Currently readingA Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
The Mystery of Banking by Murray Rothbard
show all (8)

Most recent activity

estern added:
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook

estern added:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

estern added:
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

estern added:
The Second Coming: A Novel by Walker Percy

estern added:
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

estern added:
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Very interesting library (we share many more titles than the twenty matched; I'm a great fan of Heschel, for example; his book about the Kotzker & Kierkegaard is one of the best on either. Wiesenthal is also excellent - on "forgiveness" amongst other things - albeit not very "Christian").
From your list I infer that you may be a college student still (like me, though undoubtedly younger and wiser). Hampshire's work on Spinoza is still the standard undergraduate text, and virtually impossible to better.
What I do not understand - it is one of life's little perplexities - is how the hell ANYONE can read Ayn Rand! And still admit to doing so!
Isn't Dennett bad enough?
Mazel tov
R.

posted by reuchlin at 10:13 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2007

Since recently joing LT and after "cramming" all my book collection into this space, I have been rooting through those member' libraries with whom Ishare the most books. And, so far, I share the most (47) with you.

Shalom

posted by Naren559 at 5:20 pm (EST) on May 14, 2007

Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /