Pre-BtZ Read Reading

[Monte Davis]

I strongly second 'From Caligari to Hitler.'

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:58 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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