a blog about books

My goal this year is to read fewer books. And to read them better. So instead of my usual c. 300, I am going to aim to really carefully read only around 150 books. These are the most important:

Liberation, Marxism, Psychoanalysis:

• Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts — Karl Marx
• Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx
• Capital — Karl Marx
• Value, Price and Profit — Karl Marx
• The Sublime Object of Ideology — Slavoj Zizek
• The Parallax View
• The Ticklish Subject — Slavoj Zizek
• The Fragile Absolute — Slavoj Zizek
• Violence — Slavoj Zizek
• First as Tragedy, Then as Farce — Slavoj Zizek
• Exodus and Revolution — Michael Walzer
• The Future of an Illusion — Sigmund Freud
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle — Sigmund Freud
• Civilization and its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
• Powers Trilogy — Walter Wink
• The Technological Society — Jacques Ellul
• Sources and Trajectories (ed. Marva Dawn) — Jacques Ellul
• The Human Condition — Hannah Arendt
• Empire Trilogy — Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt
• The Dialectical Imagination — George Friedman
• Minima Moralia — Theodore Adorno
• Dialectic of Enlightenment — Horkheimer & Adorno
• Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy, and Gender — Sarah Coakley
• Ecrits — Jacques Lacan
• Deleuze and Guattarri: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire — Philip Goodchild
• Theopolitical Imagination — William Cavanaugh
• Being Consumed — William Cavanaugh
• A Theology of Liberation — Gustavo Gutierez

Mysticism:

• The Presence of God: A History of Western Mysticism (4 vols.) — Bernard McGinn

Theology / Mythology:

• Psalms (3 vols.) — John Goldingay
• History of Christian Doctrine (6 vols.) — Jeroslav Pelikan
• Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology — David Kelsey
• Foundations of the Christian Faith — Karl Rahner
• Jesus: An Experiment in Christology — Edward Schillebeeckx
• The Apostle’s Creed in Light of Today’s Questions — Wolfhart Pannenberg
• Reformed Dogmatics — Herman Bavinck
• The Hauerwas Reader — Stanley Hauerwas
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions — John Donne
• The Politics of Jesus — John Howard Yoder
• God Without Being — Jean Luc Marion

Philosophy and General Intellectual History:

• Philosophies of Nature After Schelling — Ian Hamilton Grant
• Physics — Aristotle
• Metaphysics — Aristotle
• Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
• Critique of Practical Reason — Immanuel Kant
• Critique of Judgment — Immanuel Kant
• The Complete Philosophical Works of William James
• Being and Time — Martin Heidegger
• Process and Reality — A.N. Whitehead
• Existence and Existents — Emmanuel Levinas
• Otherwise than Being — Emmanuel Levinas
• I and Thou — Martin Buber
• What Is Philosophy? — Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Literary Theory — Terry Eagleton
• Figures of Dissent — Terry Eagleton
• Descartes: An Intellectual Biography — Stephen Gaukroger
• German Idealism — Frederick Beiser
• The Post-Darwinian Controversies — James Moore
• Civilization and Capitalism (3 vols.)