Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Books and Authors that I would want to read

Here is a list, not very comprehensive, of the various books and authors I am interested in reading and probably should at some point.

Alasdair Macyintyre - Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Charles Taylor - A Secular Age
Stanley Hauerwas - The Peaceable Kingdom
Noam Chomsky - The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Slavoj Zizek - The Parralax View
Jurgen Moltmann - A Theology of Hope
Ernst Bloch - Principle of Hope
Jacques Derrida - Of Grammatology
George Lindbeck - The Church in a Postliberal Age
Lesslie Newbigin - The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
David Bosch - Transforming Mission
Frederiech Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols
John Howard Yoder - The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel
Reinhold Niebuhr - Christian Realism and Politics Problems
John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employement, Interest and Money
Rerum Novarum - Papal Encyclical issued by Leo XIII
GK Chesterton - Utopia of Usurers
Dorothy Day - Loaves and Fishes
Walter Brueggemann - Old Testament Theology
Karl Marx - Das Capital
Soren Kierkegaard - The Sickness unto death
Michel Foucalt - The Archeology of Knowledge
Fredrich Schleiermacher - On Religion: Speeches to it's cultured despiser
Samuel Beckett - collected Plays
Karl Barth - Dogmatics in Outline
GWF Hegel - Phenomenology of the Mind
Rene Girard - Violence and the Sacred
Immanuel Kant - A critique of pure reason
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
JP Sartre - Being and Nothingness
Gabriel Marcel - The Mystery of Being
John Calvin - Christian Institutes
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
Arthur Schopenhauer - On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason
Goethe - Faustus
Arthur Miller - collected plays
St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
Irenaues - collected works
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics AND Tragedy
Plato - Apology
Negri and Hardt - Empire

I realize this is a very unbalanced list - oops. It's almost exclusive male, western and within the last two hundred years with a philosophical-theological bent.