Summer reading
Not going to be blogging much for a bit, so here’s what I’m thinking of reading this summer instead. No reason you should be interested, but any ‘absolute must’ recommendations, esp. on liberation theology (other than Freire), are welcome:
First time reading
Lenin, The State and Revolution
Edmund Burke, Reflection of the Revolution in France
Finishing off
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism
Paul Sanderson, Socialism with a Northern Accent
Ken Coates, The Crisis of British Socialism
Rawls, Justice as Fairness
Re-reading to remind myself of the good bits
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
Charles Taylor et al. Multiculturalism and the politics of recognition
Heinrich Kleist, The Marquise of O
Re-reading and trying to understand properly this time
Franz Kafka, the three big novels
Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Jean Baudrillard, The intelligence of evil or The Lucidity Pact
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Seriously impressed by the Rawls. Struggle to make it through a chapter of Justice as Fairness…
I might get round to trying a colleague’s suggestion that Freire’s “Education, the practice of freedom” would help with understanding aspects of “Pedagogy of the oppressed”.
Thanks for the tip
Try ‘Treasure Islands’ N Shaxson, ‘Secret Affairs’ Mark Curtis and ‘Keywords’ Raymond Williams