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Position:Home>Philosophy> My boyfriend is a philosophy major...?Question: My boyfriend is a philosophy major!.!.!.!? !.!.!. his focus is on continental philosophy and his favorite philosopher is Nietzsche!. For Christmas I plan on buying him a bookshelf and filling it with books!.!.!.I really want to make this Christmas a surprise, so instead of asking him what specific books he wants, I have been asking his friends and searching the internet for book ideas!.!.!. any suggestions yahoo users!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Thats awesome!. I would mix things up- philosophy and thoughtful fiction!.!.!.and do amazon used to save some $$$ if you want- used books have character! Battaille's wound by Michael Green (amazon this gem!.!.!.hard to find, but not likely expensive) Anything by Plato!.!.!.the Symposium, or the Last days of Socrates any Sigmund Freud The bible Athiest literature (maybe The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins) Awakening the Buddha within by lama Surya Das the Quran the Torah Frankenstein by MAry Shelley A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl The Anti Christ by Nietzsche Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx I found a cool coffee table book called The Great Philosophers, from Socrates to Focault, by Jeremy Stangroom and James Garvey in the Barnes n Noble bargain section- you may find it online (or in your local b & n)!. Its a fairly in-depth look at about 30-40 of the world's most prominent philosophers!. Good luck with finding books to fill it!. That's an awesome gift!. I would love it myself!Www@QuestionHome@Com Just buy the book shelf !. !. !. He will accumulate a ton of books !. !. !. HIs thoughts on his philosophers will evolve with his studies!. I got tired of lugging my books around after college and I was a philosophy-theology major with an emphasis in systematic theology!. I was living out of my car and bumming around after college!. I decided to limit my stuff to my most important things!. I kept my surfboard, guitar, a couple of books, actually just one a beat up bible, and a bag of clothes!. I left a bunch of books in boxes in front of the university's library!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Agreed with Jack and Sean!. I think, the Communist manifesto is also a good idea as a sprinkle to that cup of ice cream!. For additional flavour, I would suggest Henri Bergson and for a cherry on top add something very light, like O!. Henry, Anton Chekhov or Mikhail Bulgakov (short stories)!. A true Nietzsche student will always appreciate lighter literature!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Nietzsche, huh!? Okay!. Get him works by the following authors: Alfred Schopenhauer!. Albert Camus!. Jean Paul Sartre!. Soren Kierkegaard!. Martin Hiedegger!. Michel Foucault!. Jacques Derrida!. These are all philosophers who influenced him, and whom he influenced!. That'll keep him busy for some time!. Cheers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Books by Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Hedel, and Heidegger!. Here is a list of authors that fit into that group: http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Category:Co!.!.!. You can see what works all of these authors have!. Www@QuestionHome@Com i am also a philosophy major but my favorite philosopher is Socrates,Plato and Aristotle sorry i dont like Nietzsche so the only book i can recommend to you is "no mans land by bertrand russel" it is also about philosophyWww@QuestionHome@Com Sun Tzu - The art of war!. I've Incorporated what I've learned in that book in to my own life!. My favourite one is "If you wait by the river long enough, eventually you will see the bodies of all your enemies float by!."Www@QuestionHome@Com that gigantic dicionary thats 8000 pages ling!? the world book series!. How bout, for a joke,a kids book, like, a smart girls guide to boysWww@QuestionHome@Com I agree with Jack, and I would like to add "Republic" by Plato and a textbook on logic!. Www@QuestionHome@Com how typical really, i mean really LolWww@QuestionHome@Com |