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The Splendid things we planned: A family portrait Canceled lives: My father, my scandal, and me Blake Bailey https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510771215/the-splendid-things-we-planned/ https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510783317/canceled-lives/  

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife across the Arts. Joseph Allen Boone Columbia University Press 2026 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-melville-effect/9780231222198/

Prof. John Lurz (Tufts University) The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language  University of Chicago Press https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo246540373.html    

Peter E. Gordon Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver.   https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300289459/walter-benjamin/

Roderick Frazier Nash Wilderness and the American Mind   https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300190380/wilderness-and-the-american-mind/

Katie Ebner-Landy The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types   https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674294127

Susan Stewart Poetry's Nature

Joshua Landy (Stanford University)  Proust: A very short introduction  

Caleb Smith Thoreau's axe: Distraction and discipline in American culture   Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem like a decidedly twenty-first-century problem, but, as Caleb Smith shows in this elegantly written, meditative work, distraction was also a serious con...

Henry David Thoreau A Very Short Introduction Lawrence Buell The first concise account of Thoreau's life, thought, work, and impact in more than half a century Builds upon the explosion of new scholarship on Thoreau during the decade of the bicentennial of his birth Treats Thoreau's two most famous and influential works - Walden and "Civil Disobedience" - both as an interdependent pair and as a wi...

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe John J. Callanan   A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale...

Dan Zahavi Phenomenology: The basics, 2nd Edition Two footnotes to the podcast. 1. Walter Hopp's beloved Boston University course is distilled in his Phenomenology:  A Contemporary Introduction (2020), an excellent companion to Zahavi's text that focuses on philosophical phenomenology.  2. Paul Møller's Psychosis risk and experience of the self (2023) is the text mentioned in the podcast that uses...

Owen Flanagan James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus  What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse "A brilliant and unparalleled synthesis of the science, philosophy, and first-person phenomenology of addiction. Owen Flanagan is a distinguished philosopher who ... is also an ex-addict. This book is beyond excellent. It is w...

Agnes Callard Open Socrates "[C]harming, intelligent…Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the first place, ask—life's most important questions. Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philoso...

Wouter Kusters A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044288/a-philosophy-of-madness/

See https/://CorriganIPU.com for updates on Human Rights Complaint submitted to Mass DMV regarding alleged human rights violations in this Fall River, MA facility.   Corrigan IPU patients deserve a real, substantive right to access the outdoors. It is gross really to see the Corrigan IPU patients staying inside day after day, week after week, and in some cases month after month.  And it is still m...

See CorriganIPU.com for updates on Human Rights Complaint   The IPU at Corrigan Mental Health Center. This is a psychiatric IPU in Fall River, MA.  It's a DMH facility. Best parts: 1) there are some excellent staff members (excellent both for patients and for co-workers), (e.g., OT Kyle, providers Max and Allison, nurses Christian and Jill, tech Sean, Social Worker Nicole). 2) As a public-sector,...

Alenka Zupančič Disavowal This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike denialism and negation, disavowal functions by fully acknowledging what we disavow. Zupancic contends that disavowal, which su...

Stijn Vanheule Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers An expert's guide to humanizing psychosis through communication offers key insights for family and friends to support loved ones during mental health crises. Are we all a little crazy? Roughly 15 percent of the population will have a psychotic experience, in which they lose contact with reality...

Peter Singer Consider the turkey Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feast.

Maria Balaska Anxiety and wonder On being human Description At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder and anxiety – what it means to prepare for them, what life may look like after experie...

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Liberalism By revealed preference, Prof. McCloskey is our favorite scholar to talk with.  This is our third conversation with her. Today, we discuss two working papers on liberalism.

Sharon Patricia Holland an other   In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. Drawing on writers and thinkers...

Stephanie Li Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American or human), white writers are exposing a self-awareness of white racialized beha...

Gilligan, Carol In a Human Voice Carol Gilligan's landmark book  In a Different Voice  – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time. Forty years later, Gilligan returns to the subject matter of her classic book, re-examinin...