Our Favorite Books
Here are some books of various non-fictional and fictional kinds that members of the philosophy faculty have recently enjoyed reading (or rereading) and that we recommend to students and others.
Emiliano Diaz
- Jessica Wiskus, The Rhythm of Thought
- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
- Alan Ryan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Plato, The Republic
- Assia Djabar, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Casey Haskins
- Mark Johnson, The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought: the Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
- Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- Michael Spitzer, The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
- Richard Powers, The Overstory
- Ted Chiang, Exhalation
- Emily St. John Mendel, Station Eleven
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Morris Kaplan
- Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence
- WEB Dubois, The Souls of Black Folks
- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
- Hannah Arendt, Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-75
- Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power
- Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
- Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Jennie Uleman
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
- Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
- G. Sebald, The Emigrants
- Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
- John Dupré, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science
- Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
- Clarice Lispector, Água Vita
- Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard