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what are lit's top 100 non-fiction books?

>> No.10920341

post some suggestions

>> No.10920360

>>10920337
The Social Contract by J.J. Rousseau

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Industrial Society and it's Future

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The Technological Society

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>>10920337
On the Sublime Object of Ideology
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Das Kapital
The Wealth of Nations
Art of War
The Prince

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>>10920337
>>10920390
>>10920404
these

>> No.10920718

The philosophical canon from the pre-Socratic fragments through to Heidegger and Wittgenstein. Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Maimonides, Aquinus, Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Berkeley, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Stirner, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, etc. Pick up Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy anthology for a good sampling, and then pick up things to fill in gaps in knowledge like Smith's Wealth of Nations, or Freud's lectures.

I'd also recommend a standard world history text book like Norton's World Together, Worlds Apart.

That's basically a good starter pack to Western civilization.

I'd generally avoid writers like Jared Diamond who offer those big overview type books. They usually have an agenda and they're filled with faulty scholarship.

Really it's hard to recommend best non-fiction books. What are your interests? Do you like the Medieval era? Japanese cuisine? Knitting? Consider what you want to learn about.