Pre-BtZ Read Reading

[Mark Kohut]

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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