Syllabus

[Ian Livingston]

Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Jung: Psychology and Alchemy
Durant, Will and Ariel: The Reformation
Dos Passos: USA Trilogy


On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Charles J. Shields
<cjs1994 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I'm new to list, but I've been reading the fascinating exchange of remarks
> back and forth.
>
> I'm thinking about going at Pynchon's novels in reverse: that is, reading
> what he might have read, or at least becoming familiar with key concepts,
> ideas, themes, and so on, before I pick up my first Pynchon work.
>
> I've seen mention of Heidegger, Hubert Dreyfus, Deleuze, Foucault,
> Nietzsche, Paul Rabinow, Sean Dorrance Kelley, Leo
> Strauss and Carl Schmitt.
>
> Do you have suggestions for my Pynchon-related syllabus?
>
> All the best,
>
> Charles Shields
> Barboursville, VA
>
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant