Pre-BtZ Read Reading

[Steven Koteff]

To that end--historical feel, contemporary London, Germany, Pavlov--any particular favorites?

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> On Jan 18, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For just the GR read, some of the list-reticent best history readers on this list would suggest a few works of history, on the rocket
> development, on London in the Blitz, etc. On Pavlov. On Germany.
>  All are mentioned somewhere in the archives. Might help with the real historical feel if you want that. . 
> 
> Thematically, I would suggest offhand that the two best books to 'get' major perspectives within GR are
> 1) N.O. Brown's Life against Death
> 2) Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. & Weber's major essays on politics.  
> 
> also, Eisenhower's farewell as President speech. the Military-Industrial Complex one. 
> and Hofstadter's '64 essay in Harper's(?) on the Paranoid style in American Politics or the whole
> damn book. 
> 
> and Nixon Agonistes or similar. 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Still got a precious few weeks before the Beyond the Zero read.
>> 
>> For the sake of conversational Duraflame, what would you personally recommend someone read in advance of reading GR (for the first, sixth, nth time)? Any reasoning welcome.
>> 
>> I plan on reading the whole thing again. Will be my second GR read and third BtZ read. I just started The Gnostic Religions, which I aim to finish before picking up. Only 30 pages in. Seems like a great choice before any read of GR though wouldn't say it's necessary before the first read. Most of me thinks I should finally read V. -
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