Michael Sorkin

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Michael Sorkin’s Book List

This is not a list of the 25 “best” books I can think of—but rather a list of 25 books that opened doors for me. Most were first read a long time ago. The list will be different tomorrow. 

7 books
Immanuel Kant

A first serious critical armature for sorting out the meaning of taste.

Friedrich Engels

The man was a remarkable straight talker. No better summary of the commodification of space.

Sigmund Freud

The first of Freud’s books I read and therefore the portal to vast worlds.

Aristotle

A book that took away much adolescent fuzziness in thinking about the idea of the good.

Plato

The book through which I learned how to read closely and had my utopian streak nicely jazzed.

William L. Shirer

The book that brought the swastika to the living room of every Jewish family in America also launched my fascination with the ur-porno of those incomprehensible events.

Rachel Carson

The origin point of systematic and political green thinking.

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