Yup. So here it is, summertime, and I'm about to embark on my favorite summertime past time: catching up on my leisure reading.
Problem? I have a lot of books. I mean, alot. Last Christmas I bought something like ten books, got another seven or eight as gifts. I think I read six of those. Thanks to my tendency to be unable to enter a bookstore without purchasing 2-3 books, I have since doubled that amount.
I thought...hey no problem I can read them over the summer.
Except...that I have so many books that I don't know where to start. Hmm, I think I'll start with this one, no that one, wait that one---
So I've narrowed it down to six books:
The Plague, by Albert Camus. I rather liked The Stranger when I read it last fall, and have heard that The Plague is the better of the two. It might make for some fun reading.
Descartes' Error: Antonio Damasio. It's about emotion and reason and the role they play in the human brain;
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, by Michael Tomasello. It's a book on cognitive anthropology. I wrote a paper on the subject last Fall and have been intrigued by it since.
Kant, Critique of Judgement. It's Kant's writings on aesthetics. Since I've been on a Kant kick and an aesthetics kick. Although I am taking an aesthetics class this summer, so I may get to read some of it anyways.
Cultural Psychology, Michael Cole. It's pretty much as the name says, a look at both cultural and cognitive issues in cross cultural psychology.
Heraclitus Seminar, which is Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink's dialogues about Heraclitus's fragments at a conference at University of Freiburg.
So what say the people?