must-read books in the humanities?

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must-read books in the humanities? 2016-05-11 00:06:55 Post No. 1117110
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must-read books in the humanities? Anonymous 2016-05-11 00:06:55 Post No. 1117110 [Report]

i'm starting university in september and i don't want to go in unprepared. i have read quite a lot of philosophy but outside of that i have almost no familiarity with the humanities.

feel free to link me to a top 100 list or just your top 10 or whatever

Anonymous 2016-05-11 00:15:32 Post No.1117128
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Anonymous 2016-05-11 00:15:32 Post No.1117128 [Report]

Faust by Goethe

Meditations by Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Sex and Character by Otto Weininger

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Divine Comedy by Dante

Anonymous 2016-05-11 00:17:24 Post No.1117136
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The only book you need.

Anonymous 2016-05-11 00:45:44 Post No.1117230
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Anonymous 2016-05-11 00:45:44 Post No.1117230 [Report]

>>1117110
Marx
Freud
Foucault
Whig Interpretation of History
What is History
Making of the English Working Class
Orientalism

Anonymous 2016-05-11 12:27:46 Post No.1119491
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>>1117110
read the classics like >>1117128 recommended
also some world history, no matter how basic, the knowledge will help

As a social sciences student I would recommend diving into some basic political theory like:

Hobbes
Rosseau
Voltaire
Locke
Aristotle
Plato
Cicero
Morghentau
etc...

Anonymous 2016-05-11 12:29:46 Post No.1119498
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>>1117136
>reading the bible in english
>ISHYGDDT

Anonymous 2016-05-11 12:35:02 Post No.1119518
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>>1119498
This.

Anonymous 2016-05-11 12:42:00 Post No.1119533
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I wanted to bone up on some American classics (I also want to recommend AbeBooks.Com moat books are like $3 w/ free shipping) and ordered the following:
>Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers
>Wealth of Nations
>Common Sense
>Politics-Aristotle

Anonymous 2016-05-11 12:44:52 Post No.1119545
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>>1117230
This is pretty good, provided you're actually studying history

Anonymous 2016-05-11 12:45:06 Post No.1119546
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Anonymous 2016-05-11 12:45:06 Post No.1119546 [Report]

>>1117110
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
Written by the only good economist from Austria.

Anonymous 2016-05-11 15:25:18 Post No.1120022
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Anonymous 2016-05-11 15:25:18 Post No.1120022 [Report]

>>1117110
no spoonfeeding

If you want top 10 go to buzzfeed

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