Library · Plate IV
Reading
A partial view of my reading pipeline. The left column is what’s passing through my hands now; the right is the lifetime shelf.
Now Reading (Slow)
- Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture
Now Reading
- Edward L. Dreyer, Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty
- José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (audiobook)
- William H. Sewell Jr., Logics of History
- Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage
Queued / Maybe
- Adrian Tinniswood, The Royal Society
- Carissa Véliz, Prophecy
- Federico Campagna, Prophetic Culture
All-Time Favorites
- Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
- Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture
- Yuk Hui, The Question Concerning Technology in China
- Matthew Stewart, The Courtier and the Heretic
- Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
- David Wootton, The Invention of Science
- Jessica Riskin, The Power of Life
- Dava Sobel, Longitude
- Charles C. Mann, 1493