Book Shelf

My current reading...

Animals, Emotion & Morality: Marking the Boundary

B. A. Dixon

This book is a philosophically astute inquiry into the pitfalls and problems with over-attributing interior capacities to animals that they likely don't have. I have found this book to be a great inspiration for how I want to write about these topics. I don't always agree with his stance but he models an approach that is much needed.

Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes From the Dark Side of the Earth

Jeffrey St. Clair

Boy talk about the "dark side" this book really jolts you out of your slumber as St. Clair poetically and passionately exposes the underbelly of society and the ways we are screwing it up royally. His short chapters are helpful for me because I can only take bite-size pieces of this stuff.

meta-Reality: Creativity, Love and Freedom

Roy Bhaskar

Mark Edwards turned me onto Bhaskar philosophy and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. The field of critical realism, as Edwards suggests, is a must know for any series integral philosopher or practitioner. Bhaskar has a solid but small following and his work is very interesting and profound. Integral Theory will do well to become more familiar with the notion of "meta-Reality"

Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization

George Ritzer

Fourteen years before Wilber introduced us to the quadrants Ritzer had already named them and was developing meta-theory in sociology based on them. This is another reccomendation I got from Mark Edwards and have found Ritzer's work to be truly fascinating. I even emailed him and then sent him some of Wilber's writings.

Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze

Brett Buchanan

This was the one book I wanted for Christmas - which is saying a lot. And I haven't been dissapointed. I based much of Integral Ecology on biosemiotics and the work of Jacob von Uexkull and this book situates those currents of thought within the larger tradition of continental philosophy. For anyone interested in the philosophy of biology and animal interiors this is a must read.