Pre-BtZ Read Reading

[gary webb]

In regards to Germany & WWII... In 2015 some fantastic histories came out:
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945 by Nicholas Stargardt & To
Hell & Back: Europe 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw. There is also on Netflix an
excellent German film From Caligari to Hitler by Rudiger Suchsland. It is
based on the book by Siegfried Kracauer, an interesting read if you want to
explore Weimar Cinema.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To that end--historical feel, contemporary London, Germany, Pavlov--any
> particular favorites?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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. -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>
>
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