Reviewing a book and write an essay about it.

A Bibliography of Ethics and Values (for PHIL 2050)

Choose a book from this list to review for PHIL 2050, or propose a book of your own. If your choice impresses me, I may add it to the list! Books good for beginners are marked with asterisks (*). Looking for a challenge, with the possibility of extra credit? Choose a bolded title. The dagger (†) marks sources I can provide as PDFs, and the double-dagger (‡) anthologies from which you should feel free to take a selection (one or more texts as desired) on which to write your review.

‡Annus, Amar, ed. 2010. Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

*Armstrong, Karen. 2000. The Battle for God. New York: Random House.

Augustine of Hippo. 2003. City of God. Translated by Henry Bettenson (in 1972). This edition edited by G. R. Evans. New York: Penguin.

Babich, Babette. 1994. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life. Albany: State University of New York Press.

‡Barnhill, D., and R. Gottlieb, eds. 2001. Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Grounds. Albany: State University of New York Press.

*Burkert, Walter. 1996. Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Bynum, David. 1978. The Daemon in the Wood: A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

‡Christenson, A. J. 2007. Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Quiché Maya People. Originally published 2003. Mesoweb. URL: <http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf>

(31 August 2015).

Clay, Diskin. 2007. Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press.

*Compton, Todd. 2014. Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indian Myth and History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

*Crenshaw, James L. 2013. Qoheleth: The Ironic Wink. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

*Diamond, Jared. 2012. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies? New York: Viking.

Dodds, E. R. 1951. The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Drozdek, Adam. 2007. Greek Philosophers as Theologians. Burlington: Ashgate.

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*Dzongshar Jamyang Khyentse. 2007. What Makes You Not a Buddhist. Boston: Shambala.

‡Easwaran, Eknath. 2007. The Upanishads. Second edition (first published 1987). Tomales: Nilgiri.

*Eliade, Mircea. 2005. The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History. Revised edition (originally published in French, 1949). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

————— . 1964. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Revised edition (originally published in French, 1951). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Epictetus. 1983. The Handbook. Translated by Nicholas P. White. Indianapolis: Hackett.

Erasmus, Desiderius. 2015. The Praise of Folly. Translated by Anthony Grafton. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

‡Frame, Donald, trans. 1976. The Complete Essays of Montaigne. Originally published 1958. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Gattei, Stefano. 2008. Thomas Kuhn's 'Linguistic Turn' and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism: Incommensurability, Rationality, and the Search for Truth. Burlington: Ashgate.

Gerson, Lloyd P. 2009. Ancient Epistemology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gleick, James. 2012. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. New York: Vintage.

Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: The First 5000 Years. Brooklyn: Melville House.

Gray, Jonathan. 2007. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.

Guenther, Herbert. 1996. The Teachings of Padmasambhava. Leiden: Brill.

Hansen, Chad. 2000. A Daoist History of Chinese Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

‡Homer. 2000. The Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and Odyssey. Translated by Stanley Lombardo. Introduced by Sheila Murnaghan. Indianapolis: Hackett.

‡Howard, Robert E. 2003-5. Conan of Cimmeria. 3 vols. Edited by P. Louinet. New York: Del Rey.

*Huizinga, Johan. 1955. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Translated by Huizinga et al. (originally published in Dutch, 1938). Boston: Beacon.

Inwood, Brad. 1985. Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism. Oxford: Clarendon.

*Jung, Carl Gustav et al. 1964. Man and His Symbols. New York: Dell.

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Jünger, Ernst. 2013 (orig. 1951). The Forest Passage. Edited by R. A. Berman. Translated by T. Friese from German (Der Waldgang). Candor: Telos.

——— . 2008 (orig. 1934). On Pain. Translated by D. C. Durst from German (Über den Schmerz). Candor: Telos.

*Kingsley, Peter. 2010. A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet, and the Destiny of the Western World. Point Reyes: Golden Sufi.

*————— . 2003. Reality. Inverness: Golden Sufi.

*————— . 2001. In the Dark Places of Wisdom. Inverness: Golden Sufi.

————— . 1995. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kingsnorth, Paul, & Dougald Hine. 2015. Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto. Self- published originally 2009. London: Dark Mountain Project. URL: <http://dark- mountain.net/about/manifesto/> (31 August 2015).

*Lear, Jonathan. 2006. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

‡Leopardi, Giacomo. 2013. Zibaldone. Translated by K. Baldwin et al. Edited by M. Caesar and F. D'Intino. Written originally in Italian, 1817-1832. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

‡————— . Canti: Poems / A Bilingual Edition. Translated by Jonathan Galassi. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

*Liebenberg, Louis. 1990. The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science. Claremont: David Philip.

*Lopez, Donald S. Jr. 2006. The Madman's Middle Way. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lovelock, James. 2009. The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. New York: Perseus.

Lucretius. 2001. On the Nature of Things. Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith (in 1969). Indianapolis: Hackett.

Magee, Bryan. 1997. The Philosophy of Schopenhauer. Revised edition (originally published 1983). Oxford: Clarendon.

Mumford, Lewis. 1934. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt.

————— . 1922. The Story of Utopias. New York: Boni and Liveright.

Nagy, Gregory. 1999. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Revised edition (originally published 1979). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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*Navia, Luis E. 1996. Classical Cynicism: A Critical Study. Westport: Greenwood.

Needham, Joseph & Walter Ling. 1956. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Neihardt, John G. 2008. Black Elk Speaks. Albany: State University of New York Press.

*Nibley, Hugh. 1981. The Ancient State: The Rulers and the Ruled. Salt Lake City: Deseret. <http://publications.mi.byu.edu/book/the-ancient-state/> (accessed 20 Dec 2016).

*Nietzsche, Friederich Wilhelm. 1989. Beyond Good and Evil. Translated by Walter Kaufmann 1966 (originally published in German, 1886). New York: Vintage.

————— . 1966. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All. Translated by Walter Kaufmann 1954 (originally published in German, 1883-84). New York: Penguin.

Nussbaum, Martha C. 2001. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Revised edition (first published 1986). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ovid. 2009. Metamorphoses. Translated by A. D. Melville. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Paglia, Camille. 1991. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. New York: Vintage.

*Pivar, Marjorie, & Quang Van Nguyen. 2004. Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of an Itinerant Buddhist Doctor in Vietnam. New York: St. Martin's.

Plato. 2016. The Republic of Plato. Translated by Allan Bloom (in 1968). New York: Basic Books.

Popper, Karl. 2013. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Revised edition (originally published in 2 volumes, 1945). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

*Porter, Bill (Red Pine), trans. 2009. Lao-tzu's Taoteching, with Selected Commentaries from the Past 2000 Years. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon.

‡*————— . 2000. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon.

Ridley, Matt. 2011. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. Reprint edition (originally published 2010). New York: HarperCollins.

————— . 2004. The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture. Originally published 2003 as Nature via Nature: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human. New York: HarperCollins.

Riepe, Dale. 1961. The Naturalistic Tradition in Indian Thought. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

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‡Romanucci-Ross, Moerman, & Tancredi, eds. 1997. The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method. Third edition. Westport: Bergin & Garvey.

‡Sapolsky, Robert. 1998. The Trouble with Testosterone, and Other Essays on the Human Predicament. Originally published 1997. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Schwartz, Benjamin I. 1985. The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge: Belknap.

Shakespeare, William. 2012. Julius Caesar. Edited by S. P. Cerasano. New York: W. W. Norton.

————— . 2008. Timon of Athens. Edited by A. Dawson and G. Minton. London: Arden Shakespeare.

————— . 2005. The Merchant of Venice. Edited by L. S. Marcus. New York: W. W. Norton.

‡Strassler, Robert, ed., and R. Crawley, trans. 1998. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. Reprint edition (originally published 1996). New York: Touchstone.

Strong, Tracy B. 1988. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration. Expanded edition (originally published 1975). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sogyal Rinpoche. 2002. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Edited by Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey. New York: HarperCollins.

Sophocles. 1990. Antigone. Translated by Richard Emil Braun. Reprint edition (originally published 1973). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

————— . 1970. Oedipus Tyrannus. Translated and edited by Luci Berkowitz and Theodore Brunner. New York: W. W. Norton.

Sowell, Thomas. 2015. Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective. New York: Basic.

Syme, Ronald. 1939. The Roman Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Taleb, Nassim N. 2012. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. New York: Random House.

Thorsrud, Harald. 2009. Ancient Skepticism. Stocksfield: Acumen.

‡Watson, Burton, trans. 2013. The Complete Works of Zhuangzi. Edited by W. T. de Bary et al. First published 1968. New York: Columbia University Press.

‡————— . 2003. Han Feizi: Basic Writings. New York: Columbia University Press.

‡Weil, Simone. 2007. The Simone Weil Reader. Edited by G. Panichas. New York: Moyer Bell.

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*Wheeler, Wendy. 2006. The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics, and the Evolution of Culture. London: Lawrence & Wishart.

Wilson, E. O. 2014. The Meaning of Human Existence. New York: W. W. Norton.

————— . 2004. On Human Nature. Revised edition (originally published 1978). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

*Woodruff, Paul. 2014. Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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