An Emphatic Umph: July 2020

7.24.2020

Just talking about one of my favorite books of all time as I discuss:

I cannot recommend this book any more ardently — it's so funny and smart and profound. Oh yes.

Lucretius, "On the Nature of Things"
Leibniz, "The Monadology"
Plato, "Phaedrus" and "The Symposium"
Epictetus, "The Enchiridion"
Nicholson Baker, "The Size of Thoughts" and "The Fermata"
Georges Perec, "Species of Spaces"
Michel de Certeau, "The Practice of Everyday Life"
Nabokov, "Lolita," "Ada," and "Pale Fire"
Tom Wolfe, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Castaneda, "Tales of Power"
Merleau-Ponty, "The Visible and Invisible"
Irvine Welsh, "Trainspotting"
Paul Virilio, "Negative Horizon" and "The Vision Machine"
Derrida, "Margins of Philosophy"
William Burroughs, "The Western Lands," "Naked Lunch," "Cities of the Red Night"
Nietzsche, "Ecce Homo"
Henry Miller, "Tropic of Cancer"
Henri Bergson, "Matter and Memory"
HG Gadamer, "Truth and Method"
John Berryman, "The Dream Songs"
Clarice Lispector, "Agua Viva"
Maurice Blanchot, "Death Sentence"
Michel Houellebecq, "Elementary Particles" and "The Possibility of an Island"
Borges, "Labyrinths"
Philip Roth, "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater"
Foucault, "The History of Sex, v. I and II"
Deleuze, "The Fold" and "Difference and Reptition"
Deleuze and Guattari, "A Thousand Plateaus" and "What is Philosophy?"
Kierkegaard, "Fear and Trembling"