At 10:53 PM 10/30/2009, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>Wow, now there's some flame bait to rise to.
>
>I've been through various phases of thought ever since I started in
>college. I was just thinking about my home library today, which I've
>collected ever since and the worlds the books represent. For example
>Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia just happens to be half
>pulled out of a shelf next to my desk computer. I think that was the
>work that made me bust out laughing, as I followed its early chapters.
>These authors write like Burroughs, except their characters are various
>disembodied concepts that rattle around like loosely moored boats tied
>to some floating system of piers. The rest of that shelf covers most of
>my `postmodern' collection and a reading anthology designed as course
>intro to the subject. Strangely Doug Henwood's Wall Street is on this
>shelf, next to an analysis of the Cuban medical system.
>
>The self above starts with Jameson's Marxism and Form, Postmodernism and
>the cultural logic of late capitalism, then Harvey, the Condition of
>Postmodernity, then Ferenc Feher, The French Revolution and the Birth of
>Modernity. Perry Anderson's The Origins of Postmodernity is setting on
>top of the others. Then there is a break, with an old book of mine,
>Daniel Cohn-Bendit, The French Student Revolt. After that is a textbook
>collection of American historical documents used in an Intro to Poli Sci
>course from long ago. It contains the Federalist Papers, the
>Constitution, Bills of Rights, and the important Supreme Court
>decisions. After that are the Horkheimer and Adrono books, Dialectic of
>the Enlightenment and Critical Theory, then Domkoff's Who Rules
>American, another Harvey, The New Imperialism. After those follows most
>of my Arendt collection starting with The Origins of Totalitarianism,
>and most of the rest of her works, including her correspondence with
>Karl Jaspers. I am slowly working through this correspondence to follow
>the preamble to my world.
>
>The shelf above that is almost all Marx.