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>What you study/have studied.
>Where you do or did it.
>3 books in your field that you would recommend to /lit/.

>> No.2775062

>>2775056

>Political Science and Sociology.
>Univ. of Hamburg

>Macpherson, Possessive Individualism
>Crouch, Postdemocracy
>Simmel, The Metropolois and Mental Life

>> No.2775075

>History
>Some college in Spain


>Immanuel Wallerstein - Historical Capitalism/ Capitalist Civilization
>Gerard Noiriel - Sur la "crise de l'histoire"
>Eric Hobsbawm - The Age of Extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991

>> No.2775103
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>Psychology as a Science (yes, it is a real science).
>Dalhousie University in the fabled Canadas.

My recommendations are all going to be pop-psych books since textbooks can be really dull.

>Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
>Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
>90-minute effect by Eric Morse

Also, not psychology related:

>Civilization and it's discontents by Sigmund Freud

>> No.2775126

>Classics (latin 'n' Greek mawfuckas)
>a small liberal arts college
>Plato's Apology, Cicero's Pro Archia, and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War

>> No.2775137

>>2775103
My favourite Freud book. Plagiarizing Schopenhauer a little bit, though.

>> No.2775157

Waiting for last night's STEM fags to arrive.

>> No.2775172

>Political Science
>not recommending the classics

>Roussea, Du Contrat Social
>Montesquieu, L'esprit des Lois
>Cicero, Re Publica

>> No.2775173

>Materials Science
>Manchester Uni

>Discipline and Punish, Foucault
>Collapse, Jared Diamond
> Sustainable Energy without the hot air, MacKay (free online http://www.withouthotair.com/

>> No.2775180

>>2775157
They were mostly American, and most Americans are still asleep.

sage because no content

>> No.2775185

>>2775180

>implying recommendation threads have no content

>> No.2775188

>>2775185
no, my own post was not worth bumping the thread for

>> No.2775208

>>2775172
>recommending Rousseau

>> No.2775217

>philosophy
>university of cambridge (inb4 no one believes me)

>Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
>Peter van Inwagen - Ontology, Identity, and Modality
>R K Elliott - Imagination in the Experience of Art

>> No.2775222

>>2775217
what do you do now?

>> No.2775223

>>2775217
>>Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

edgy atheist detected

>> No.2775226

>>2775217
I'm considering applying. Is the analytical bias as strong as they say it is?

>> No.2775227

>History
>University of Bristol

>AJP Taylor - The Origins of the Second World War
>Frances Yates - The Art of Memory
>Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924

>> No.2775234

>Philosophy
>University of Oslo

>Barthes, Mythologies
>Barthes, Camera Lucida
>Frankfurt, On Bullshit (it's really an essay, but oh well)

>> No.2775236

>>2775217
Cambridge love Hume, is a big focus even for various Postgrad MPhils. Not exactly 'radical' these days though.

>>2775227
You are either a first year, lying or haven't been there yet. Nobody who studied History for 3 years would reccomend anything by AJP Taylor. I'd be surprised if it has even been on the pre-reading list for freshers in the last 20 years.

If I'm wrong, then Bristol really has gone downhill and lives up to its overrated tag.

>> No.2775258

>>2775236

I graduated 3 years ago, and, no, Taylor wasn't on any reading lists for freshers or anybody else.

Nonetheless I'd say he's a very readable popular historian who made some significant contributions to his field. They've since been superseded, sure, but he has the advantage of being much more readable than most of his detractors. I picked him because he presents a view on Hitler that the layman will probably find fresh and thought-provoking.

That okay with you?

>> No.2775272

>communication- and information sciences
>free university in Amsterdam

>Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon
>Logic of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Popper
>An Introduction to Information Theory by John R. Pierce

The Information by James Gleick is also pretty good

>> No.2775306
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>>2775272
>Amsterdam
>mfw

>> No.2775312

>>2775272

>Popper

I always laugh when people read Popper and dont move on to Kuhn, Feyeraband, etc when trying to define what a science is.

I think this is because economists use Popper because it lets them convince themselves what they do is a science

>> No.2775323

>>2775306
>>2775272

>tfw starting uni in september
(>philosophy at UvA)
>tfw no room
>tfw 2 hours travel time

sup, got a room 4me?

>> No.2775329

>>2775323
>tfw dropped out of philosophy at UU
>tfw back living with parents

Nope.

>> No.2775332

>>2775312
Feyerabend bro-fist.

>> No.2775339

>>2775258
You are right, but both Taylor and his detractors are old hat. Taylor vs. Trevor-Roper has a certain comedy value, sure - but you aren't really helping paint an accurate portrait of either the wider discipline or Hitler/WW2.

I'm sure /lit/ could manage Kershaw, or Fulbrook, for example.

Also, I don't think think Taylor's style is particularily noted (thesedays) for a readable style, not over and above anyone else who has tried their hand at the most-over studied popular history subject ever.

Did you enjoy your years at Bristol?

>> No.2775341

>Mathematics

>John Derbyshire - Prime Obsession
>E.T. Bell - Men of Mathematics
>Paul Halmos - Naive Set Theory

These are three of the books that helped me decide to study mathematics. Each of them can be read individually with little prior knowledge of mathematics, but I'd recommend leaving Halmos until last.

>> No.2775347

>>2775312
Popper was a logical positivist and therefore fell in line with the academic bias. The others were not so much

>> No.2775352

business administration
brock university (Canada)
>the wealthy barber
>freakanomics
>the 2nd freakanomics

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>>2775352
Is that even a real university? Are you sure you can read?

>> No.2775364

>nothing
>nowhere

>Ezra 4 and Daniel
>Nausea
>Don Quixote

>> No.2775375

>English Language, Literature and Culture
>University of Aarhus

>Norton Anthology of English/American Literature
>An Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory - Andrew Bennett & Nicholas Royle <---- favorite
>Film Art: An Introduction - David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson

>> No.2775378

>>2775323

Sorry, still live at home

>> No.2775381

>>2775339

Fair enough, Kershaw would have been a good call. I have a fondness for Taylor but I won't try to argue the point that others are more relevant these days.

I enjoyed some things about my time at Bristol. I had a lot of personal garbage going on back then and didn't really focus on my studies, but there were several courses I really enjoyed including one particularly /lit/ relevant one about America in the 1920s which I used as an opportunity to bury myself in Fitzgerald and Hemingway.

>> No.2775383

>>2775222
Work on a farm, but starting a fine art course in Holland in september. come at me bro.

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>>2775375

>An Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory - Andrew Bennett & Nicholas Royle

It seems pretty interesting. I just downloaded it, hopefully I'll learn a thing or two

>tfw inferior self-education

>> No.2775391

>>2775226
It sure is. Quantificational logic is compulsory for the first 2 years, and all module reading lists are literally 99% comrpised of anglo-american philosophy from the last 100 years. Raymond Geuss, if he's still teaching, is basically the one link the faculty has to continental philosophy. He's into Nietzsche and Marxism, I think (I wouldn't really know, I didn't take any lectures/supervisions with him).

>> No.2775392

>>2775383
Let me guess, Utrecht?

>> No.2775396

>>2775223
Nope, it's just really fucking good. I'm a fan of van Inwagen's Christian apologetic work as well, so, you know, there!

>> No.2775398

>>2775392
Groningen
Why did you guess Utrecht?

>> No.2775411

>>2775398
They spammed my mail quite a bit with their arts stuff since I used to study philosophy there, figured they might try the same abroad.

Oh well. Enjoy your stay in our humble little socialist merchantile calvinist hedonist country.

>> No.2775419

>>2775411
It looks like a cool school. I honestly didn't know anything about it. Still it says online the fine art course is only partially taught in english, and I speak hardly any dutch.

>> No.2775429

>>2775386
I actually read most of the chapters outside of the curriculum. It's a very amusing read, along with it covering pretty much every topic regarding literature.

>> No.2775430

>>2775429

Yeah, I just skimmed through some of the chapter openings, it seems like a genuinely entertaining and informative book, unlike most textbooks I've come across. Thanks for the rec. I know fuckall about theory, and I want to start digging my teeth into it.