Member davex(he/him)
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- 18th-19th Century Britain, American History, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient History, Anglicanism, Anglophiles, Book Care and Repair, Book Collectors, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Catholic Tradition, Christianity, Elizabethan England, Library of America Subscribers, Marxist & Socialist, Medieval Europe, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, New York Review Books, Reformation Era: History and Literature, Reformation Historians, TinyCat
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2017
- Real Name
- Dave
- About My Library
Philosophy, history, politics, religion, selected literature, selected children's literature. Several thousand volumes, many in boxes, slowly adding them here. Big areas: Politics and theory; German philosophy/theology/literature; History of ideas: Liberalism, Marxism (various schools), Socialism, Critical Theory, Annales School, Vienna Circle, 'Theory'; Anglicanism; History: Medieval, Early Modern England, Missouri, Labor, Twentieth Century Europe; 'Modernity'; LOA; Classic lit, Classic children's lit. I have a good collection of signed / first editions of John Gardner.
- About Me
Middle aged computer programmer, married with 3 kids. Grew up in Michigan but of mostly Missouri-German ancestry, spent a decade in the Bay Area. Bibliophile since childhood, used to work in a bookstore. Former militant atheist, now TEC / inclusive Christianity. Working class politics.
"Dialectics has made me hateful to the whole world" - Abelard
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- Kansas City, MO
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Bookstores: Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Zona Rosa, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Green Spot Used Books and More, Literati Bookstore, Moe's Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Prospero's Books and Media, Steel's Used Books, The Dusty Bookshelf, The Raven Book Store - Lawrence KS
Libraries: Riverside Branch (Mid-Continent Public Library), The Kansas City Public Library - Central Library
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