(Part 2) Best european literary history books according to redditors
We found 155 Reddit comments discussing the best european literary history books. We ranked the 83 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
I took a college class on gossip and poetry, and the prof had us read a large chunk of this book on gossip theory and after reading it I feel 0 guilt about reading celebrity gossip. I think it's fascinating!
So you think you can argue by giving me links to a book on amazon.com? And, its not such an open and shut case as you'd hope, and I highly doubt this solves the problem of induction. I'm not going to argue this here, but I think if you're going to link to a book on amazon I'm entitled to link to another.
http://www.amazon.ca/Enquiry-concerning-Human-Understanding/dp/0199549907/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398018671&sr=1-1&keywords=hume
And because I'm a jackass. one more
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Method-Paul-Feyerabend/dp/1844674428/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398018826&sr=8-1&keywords=against+method
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I started with a multiplayer prototype that only had the swapping mechanic. That slowly mutated into a single player experience because I wasn't satisfied with the kind of emotions it was invoking and felt the entire game was a bit shallow. The idea itself was indirectly inspired by this book: http://www.amazon.com/Living-Soul-Norvik-Press-Series/dp/1870041097
Due at least in part to his Socratic methodological presuppositions and consequent rhetorical strategies, Kierkegaard frequently presents his philosophical ideas in literary form. Accordingly, when reading his work it is unwise to sharply separate the two.
While Repetition is not among Kierkegaard’s most influential works, neither is it among his least influential. It was certainly a huge influence on Deleuze’s 1968 Différence et Répétition, and has elicited comparisons of Kierkegaard’s category to Nietzsche’s notion of eternal recurrence (see, e.g., Kellenberger 1997). For a book length treatment, see especially Eriksen 2000.
Repetition is, thematically and in terms of publication date, a companion volume to Fear and Trembling. Kierkegaard’s fictive dialectician-humorist Johannes Climacus treats them together in Concluding Unscientific Postscript (see Hongs’ trans., pp. 261-68). See also Mark Taylor’s “Ordeal and Repetition in Kierkegaard’s Treatment of Abraham and Job” in Connell and Evans, eds. 1992. And yes, pseudonymity is important, concerning which see the following posts:
Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms—Part I
Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms—Part II
Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms—Part III
A “Who’s Who” of Kierkegaard’s Formidable Army of Pseudonyms
On the Existential Labyrinth of Kierkegaardian Pseudonymity
The Intentional Unreliability of the Kierkegaardian Pseudonyms
In short, Kierkegaard is not Constantius, nor is he the Young Man. (The supplement in the Hongs’ translation has some portions from Kierkegaard’s journals and papers that help greatly clarify Kierkegaard’s own understanding of repetition.)
According to this link Columbus basically fucked up all the calculations, including using the wrong units and vastly overestimating how big Asia was.
>Washington Irving’s overly imaginative A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus notwithstanding, it was widely known by the 15th Century that the Earth is spherical. The question was, how big is the sphere? In 200 BCE, after all, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth to within one percent of its actual girth. He figured that one degree of latitude was equal to 59.5 nautical miles.
In making his own calculation, however, Columbus preferred the values given by the medieval Persian geographer, Abu al Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani (a.k.a. Alfraganus): one degree (at the equator) is equal to 56.67 miles. That was Columbus’s first error, which he compounded with a second: he assumed that the Persian was using the 4 856-foot Roman mile; in fact, Alfraganus meant the 7 091-foot Arabic mile. (This is, of course, the sort of confusion of units that sent the Mars Climate Orbiter into its terminal swan dive in September 1999.)
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>Taken together, the two miscalculations effectively reduced the planetary waistline to 16,305 nautical miles, down from the actual 21,600 or so, an error of 25 percent.
And then there was the third error. “Not content with whittling down the degree by 25 percent,” Morison writes, “Columbus stretched out Asia eastward until Japan almost kissed the Azores.” Through a complicated chain of reasoning that mixed Ptolemy, Marinus of Tyre, and Marco Polo with some “corrections” of his own, Columbus calculated that he would find Japan at 85º west longitude (rather than 140° east)—moving it more than 8,000 miles closer to Cape St. Vincent.
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>All in all, he figured, the Indies were just 68 degrees west of the Canary Islands. Calculated travel distance: 3080 nautical miles. Actual distance from Tenerife to Jakarta: 7313 nautical miles. Margin of error: 58 percent.
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There are some books referenced in HeathenTalk that are not included, or are included as supplementary reading, in the reading list here. I'm early on in the podcast--I am just behind you, listening to the LGBT* episode--and just ordered A Piece of Horse Liver as it was mentioned in the podcast and sounded interesting. So you might keep a list running as you listen to check out those books/sources later and see if they would be of interest.
There are a couple places you can look for other heathens in your area--on the side bar there is a "Members Location" section, and some of the major heathen organizations in the US have regional breakdowns of groups affiliated with them. I'm not going to link to them here, but a little online searching will bring them up.
I'll leave the wight gift cycle to another user who is more familiar with it--currently I am more focused on ancestor veneration, though I give to the wights as well.
There is absolutely precedent for keeping an ancestral altar in your home. You may remember in the N00bcast (I believe), u/thatsnotgneiss mentioned her ancestor altar being within eye level during the broadcast. It's absolutely encouraged to remember them and offer them gifts, such as food or a drink they enjoyed in life. You can also honor them by telling their stories during sumbel and the like.
A Celtic Miscellany: Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson to get an idea of the variety within 'Celticism' and to get a feel of the myths and tales.
The Celts: Bronze Age to New Age by Haywood. A bit of a general book about the Celts.
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions by H R Ellis Davidson. A more scholarly work placing the Celts in the larger context of Northern European peoples.
Of course there's plenty more.
The book Scots: The Mither Tongue by Billy Kay is a favourite of mine for information on the history,politics and current situation of the Scots language. As for learning the language there are books such as this and grammar guides such as this. There is also the Dictionary of the Scots Language which is an amazingly useful resource for native and learner alike found here. As for the issue of listening to Scots speakers so you can understand pronunciation i have no suggestion however i will have a search and contact you if i find a good solution to this. When brushing up on my own Scots i always found copying passages from English into Scots as being useful for both increasing vocabulary but also making the word choice more natural when i was using it in daily life, i myself ended up completing a good chunk of the KJV in Scots. While an endeavour like the KJV is by no means recommended by me, smaller passages from books/newspapers/back of beans tins copied into Scots daily can be useful practice.
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I recommend this book on Nietzsche A God Torn to Pieces: The Nietzsche Case
> Nietzsche ultimately drove himself to mental collapse. Fornari analyzes the tragic reports of Nietzsche’s madness and seeks out the cause of this self-destructive destiny, which, he argues, began earlier than his rivalry with the composer and polemicist Richard Wagner, dating back to the premature loss of Nietzsche’s father. Dramatic experience enabled Nietzsche to detect a more general tendency of European culture, leading to his archaeological and prophetic discovery of the death of God, which he understood as a primordial assassination from which all humankind took its origin. Fornari concludes that Nietzsche’s fatal rebellion against a Christian awareness, which he identified as the greatest threat to his plan, led him to become one and the same not only with Dionysus but also with the crucified Christ. His effort, Fornari argues, was a dramatic way to recognize the silent, inner meaning of Christ’s figure, and perhaps to be forgiven.
if you're a student you can read it for free.
Yasemin Yildiz's Beyond the Mother Tongue seems like it could be of interest to you.
Oh, sorry, I thought I responded to you. Guess my reply didn't go through.
Yeah, you should attempt to relearn how to read. If you're reading really slowly, then that's going to cause a lot of problems down the road. A good speed reading book will teach you how to read and how to read quickly. Could also pair it with a reading comprehension book (I personally teach from Deeper Reading and Critical Encounters in High School English. Use the Deeper reading one first. Critical Encounters is to get to college level reading while Deeper reading lays the foundation).
I have taught people how to speed read. I have taken students with 120 WPM and English as their second language and got them to read at around 500-600 WPM and now they're off in medical school. It does work. It takes time (about two months I've seen if you dedicate a small amount of time every day), but the results are worth it. Relearning a proper way to read can greatly help. While I doubt you have a reading disability, even then, this would help. Every person who came to me for help with reading speed, as long as they kept to it, eventually made it to 400 WPM at least. Several made it to 600 WPM and higher.
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US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BCK9FNT
Are there more? I couldn't find any other free ones going through the similarly listed items.
Coworker: I immediately thought she should get a really graphic Batman poster. You could even get it framed if you have enough left over. Here are some from Etsy: 1, 2, 3, 4, this one's a little different.. but it's video game related so.. here! 5
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Boss: A nice photography book would probably be a safe bet: 1, 2, 3, 4, last one is $5 over budget, but 5
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Professor: I'm sorry I don't have more original ideas for him but here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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GOOD LUCK!!
If you want an online version of Hume's Enquiry then use this one, unlike the one linked below it has the Selby-Bigge page numbers and properly marked paragraphs that any Hume scholar will refer to (The Selby-Bigge page numbers are very important though because anyone who refers to Hume in a citation will use these numbers). In terms of print versions Peter Millican (one of the top Hume scholars in the world) has an excellent affordable edition in the Oxford world classics series, but the definitive scholarly edition is this one edited by Tom Beauchamp. I find Hume very approachable, especially in the first Enquiry, but everyone differs - however if you've found Descartes easy enough to follow I should think you'll find Hume easy enough as well.
A collection of works by Samuel Johnson, such as
this one. His dictionary of English was the standard for nearly 200 years, and he did it with only clerical assistance. It's probably the single most impressive feat of scholarship ever, and his writings on many subjects are powerfully illuminating.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Seed-Yggdrasill-Deciphering-Messages/dp/8792632289
Rekommenderar denna för alla nybörjare. Maria har också en YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/LadyoftheLabyrinth/videos) där hon går igenom viktiga detaljer för någon som är intresserad. Och nej, det är inte bara någon random som bestämt sig för att sätta upp en kamera i sitt rum: http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/iks/2004/18497/AUTO/18497.pdf.
Jag brukar undvika alla som försöker tampas med kulturhistoria, för det blir oftast massa New Age. Maria tar dock det väldigt seriöst och vetenskapligt. Det är ett helt annat perspektiv när du lärt dig språket och dedikerat en sådan stor del av ditt liv att förstå det.
Och sedan, självklart, Havamal. Jag rekommenderar att läsa den ifrån fornnordiska, eftersom det går ihop mycket snyggare och det får en annan kontext. Det är dock lite bökigt för någon som är ny: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html
Problemet med Asatron är att det fanns en väldigt etablerad symbolik igenom familjeträd (vi älskade våra familjeträd, titta på Iceland Sagas) och nu är systemet "borta". Men det återstår så väldigt mycket.
Och om du vill ha ett direkt exempel, lyssna på: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evE6aLg-_Q8
Följ gärna också Einar i Wardruna som spenderat lång tid att studera innebörden av runor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCLPH615utU
Fróðr sama tíl hǫfuð sáer reynr.
https://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Johnson-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199538336
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Magic-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0062225677/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1550233194&sr=1-1&keywords=DiscworldI highly recommend both of these.
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