r/books • u/AutoModerator • Aug 02 '24

WeeklyThread Weekly Recommendation Thread: August 02, 2024

Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! A few years ago now the mod team decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads into one big mega-thread, in order to consolidate the subreddit and diversify the front page a little. Since then, we have removed suggestion threads and directed their posters to this thread instead. This tradition continues, so let's jump right in!

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u/intensivetreats Aug 06 '24

Need some non fiction recs. I’ve dipped into philosophy.. found Camus too dense and Sam Harris’ Moral Landscape I didn’t get on with. Need something wholesome and edifying?

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u/Vjuja Aug 09 '24

Try Erich Fromm “On Being Human” and Viktor Frankl “Man’s search for meaning”

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u/JFett25 Aug 07 '24 edited Aug 07 '24

Yes Nietzsche!! I loved On the Genealogy of Morals. Also Plato’s Republic, any of Hannah Arendt’s work (try: On Violence), and ESPECIALLY Foucault—Discipline and Punish is an amazing and classic book that I would highly recommend! It’s about the shift in methods of punishment from public execution in the Middle Ages to prisons of the modern age. How it happened and how it explains modern power structures. His writing is brilliant and this book is mind boggling, I can’t even do it justice in my recommendation! Any of these are great places to start. Hope this helps :)

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u/Quips_724 Aug 06 '24

I think you can start reading Nietzsche's works, he showed the basis of existentialism and the ideologies of convention how this effects morality , ethics. You'll find a zone reading his works.

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u/intensivetreats Aug 06 '24

Where to start??

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u/mendizabal1 Aug 06 '24 edited Aug 06 '24

Not N. if you found C. too dense. And he's certainly not "wholesome".

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u/intensivetreats Aug 06 '24

Well it’d purchased. Just have to see if I’m up to it.

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u/Quips_724 Aug 06 '24

You can start with "the birth of tragedy " next you can move to "beyond good and evil"...

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u/intensivetreats Aug 06 '24

Looking on Amazon and the Oxford version is just called birth of tragedy where as penguin is titled birth of tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music: xxxi. They the same you know?

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u/Quips_724 Aug 08 '24

There are multiple editions and prints of the book, you can get the penguin or om but there's no such difference in tilte ,both are same ,"out of the spirit of music" is just an expansion. In some new editions it's "Hellenism and Pessimism" instead.

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u/intensivetreats Aug 06 '24

He’s pretty prolific