[lit-ideas] Re: The Three Grices
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:44:30 -0500
Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
McCreery is right that perhaps a survey of the best philosophical works
published in the first decade of the 21st century would not be a bad idea.
1. I'm not even sure I understand works published in the first decade
of the 20th century; sometimes I think I get why they are "important,"
but then the underlying questions evaporate into dull mist.
2. Any "list" is only as good as the purpose the list is meant to
serve. There is no such thing as "best" books; it depends on what the
book is trying to accomplish, whether that is worth accomplishing, what
influence that successful book has had on a particular group, and
whether that group is really all that important a group.
3. To make a HUGE leap, let me suggest some other books for another
list entirely. My list is a list of philosophical books published in
the 20th century that have had a great influence outside the
British/American "analytic" graduate program philosophy departments.
Here's 5 books that might serve as a start of a very different kind of
"list."
1. Revolt of the Masses, Ortega y Gasset
2. Philosophy (3 vol.) Karl Jaspers
3. The Mystery of Being Gabriel Marcel
4. Democracy and Education, John Dewey
5. The Primacy of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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