Dissertation Reading

Hermeticism / Mysticism

• Glenn Alexander Magee
  • Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition
• Peter Kingsley
  • Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocl and Pythagorean Tradition
• Julius Evola
• Michel Serres
  • Hermes: Literature, Science, Philosophy

Hindu Thought

• S. Radhakrishnan
  • Eastern Religions and Western Thought
• The Upanishads
• The Rig Veda
• Raimundo Pannikar
  • The Vedic Experience

The Linguistic Turn

• Malcolm Bowie
  • Lacan
• Jacques Derrida
  • Of Grammatology
  • “Signature, Event, Context”
  • Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs
• Michel Foucault
  • The Order of Things
• Philipe Lacoue-Labarthe
  • Heidegger, Art and Politics: The Fiction of the Political
• Zhong Longxi
  • The Tao and the Logos: Notes on Derrida’s Critique of Logocentrism
• Paul de Man
  • Blindness and Insight
  • The Resistance to Theory
• Paul Ric�ur
  • The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning of Language
  • Time and Narrative

Rhetoric

• Brian Vickers
  • In Defense of Rhetoric
• Steven Mailloux
  • Rhetorical Power
  • Reception Histories
• Celeste Condit
  • “Why Rhetorical Training Can Expand Agency.” Alliance of Rhetoric Societies. Evanston, IL. http://www.comm.umn.edu/ARS/Agency/Condit, agency.htm, 2003.
• Henri Jean-Martin
  • The History and Power of Writing
• John Sallis
  • Being and the Logos

Transhumanism

• Lewis Mumford
  • The Transformations of Man
  • Probably others
• Henry Munn
  • The Mushrooms of Language
• Brian Rotman
  • Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being
• Warren Wagar
  • _Bulding the City of Man: Outlines of a World Civiliazation

Snow Crash

• Walter Benn Michaels – The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History
• Richard Rorty – Achieving Our Country

Christian Thought

• Caroline Walker Bynum – Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336
• Pseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works Link

Humanism

• “Letter on Humanism” – Martin Heidegger (in red book)

Other

• Anonymous
  • _The Cloud of Unknowing
• Norman O. Brown
  • Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis
• Sean Homer
  • Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism
• Bruno Latour
  • Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory
    George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
  • Philosophy in the Flesh
• Isabelle Stengers
  • “Whitehead’s Account of the Sixth Day”
  • Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
  • The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the Laws of Nature
  • Power & Invention
• Paul Stenner
  • A.N. Whitehead and Subjectivity
• Albert North Whitehead
  • Process and Reality
  • Adventures of Ideas
• Giambattista Vico
  • The New Science
• Halewood, M. (2005). “On Whitehead and Deleuze: The Process of Materiality”. Configurations, 13(1), pp. 57�76.
• MacKenzie, Mary, “Heraclitus and the art of paradox”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 6 (1988), pp. 1-37