Professor Anton’s Highly Recommended Reading List

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements 4.20 avg rating — 11,544 ratings
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How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words 3.90 avg rating — 2,562 ratings
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology 4.26 avg rating — 1,457 ratings
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Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity 4.27 avg rating — 796 ratings
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The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man 4.34 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing 3.93 avg rating — 418,886 ratings
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The parable of the beast
The parable of the beast 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History 4.15 avg rating — 551 ratings
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On Dialogue
On Dialogue 4.07 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America 4.08 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society
The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society 3.53 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Language in Thought and Action
Language in Thought and Action 4.22 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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The Bias of Communication
The Bias of Communication 4.05 avg rating — 144 ratings
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People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment
People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Media Monopoly
The Media Monopoly 4.24 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man 4.10 avg rating — 4,051 ratings
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Counterblast
Counterblast 4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,971 ratings
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The Ernest Becker Reader
The Ernest Becker Reader 4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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On Becoming a Leader
On Becoming a Leader 3.89 avg rating — 5,378 ratings
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Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1) 4.23 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge 4.12 avg rating — 4,250 ratings
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Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West 4.42 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Human Behaviour and Social Processes: An Interactionist Approach
Human Behaviour and Social Processes: An Interactionist Approach 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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I and Thou
I and Thou 4.07 avg rating — 11,691 ratings
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Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method 4.28 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology
The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology 4.03 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Philosophy of Literary Form
The Philosophy of Literary Form 4.16 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion 4.19 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society
Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society 3.90 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! 4.27 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility 3.74 avg rating — 7,345 ratings
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An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture 3.98 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan 4.11 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
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The Consequentiality of Communication (Routledge Communication Series)
The Consequentiality of Communication (Routledge Communication Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Of Time, Work, and Leisure
Of Time, Work, and Leisure 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Wisdom of the Sands
The Wisdom of the Sands 4.13 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
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Limited Inc
Limited Inc 3.94 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Experience and Nature
Experience and Nature 4.20 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Communication and social order
Communication and social order 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Travels In Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
Travels In Hyperreality (Harvest Book) 3.89 avg rating — 2,851 ratings
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Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society
Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society 3.55 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Selected Writings
Selected Writings 4.17 avg rating — 600 ratings
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Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities 3.73 avg rating — 311 ratings
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About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980 4.11 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume 1
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume 1 3.97 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.30 avg rating — 37,864 ratings
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Habitations of the Word: Essays
Habitations of the Word: Essays 4.46 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Saturated Self: Dilemmas Of Identity In Contemporary Life
The Saturated Self: Dilemmas Of Identity In Contemporary Life 3.95 avg rating — 294 ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 4.05 avg rating — 6,389 ratings
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Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior 4.08 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Strategic Interaction
Strategic Interaction 4.11 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry
Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Domestication of the Savage Mind
The Domestication of the Savage Mind 3.73 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle 4.18 avg rating — 4,708 ratings
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Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England 3.99 avg rating — 159 ratings
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How to Make Yourself Miserable
How to Make Yourself Miserable 3.67 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Speaking
Speaking 4.53 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Beyond Culture
Beyond Culture 3.95 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice 4.02 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century 3.98 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present 4.01 avg rating — 163 ratings
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History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena
History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena 4.23 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude 4.25 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations
The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations
by: F. Heider
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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On the Origin of Language
On the Origin of Language 3.65 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Who Is Man?
Who Is Man? 4.27 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America
The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America 3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Roman Jakobson's Approach to Language: Phenomenological Structuralism
Roman Jakobson's Approach to Language: Phenomenological Structuralism 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals 3.88 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Your Most Enchanted Listener
Your Most Enchanted Listener 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Phenomenon of Life
The Phenomenon of Life 4.28 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,153 ratings
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Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 4.33 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Journals and Papers, Vol 1: A-E
Journals and Papers, Vol 1: A-E 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Overload and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society (Contributions in Sociology)
Overload and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society (Contributions in Sociology) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Ghost in the Machine
The Ghost in the Machine 4.03 avg rating — 659 ratings
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Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering
Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering 3.99 avg rating — 135 ratings
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General Semantics Seminar 1937: Transcription of Notes from Lectures in General Semantics Given at Olivet College
General Semantics Seminar 1937: Transcription of Notes from Lectures in General Semantics Given at Olivet College 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Freedom from the Known
Freedom from the Known 4.29 avg rating — 11,695 ratings
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Self and Others
Self and Others 4.03 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Interpersonal Perception: A Theory and a Method of Research
Interpersonal Perception: A Theory and a Method of Research 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Metaphors We Live By
Metaphors We Live By 4.09 avg rating — 6,740 ratings
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Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art 4.10 avg rating — 294 ratings
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The Absent Body (4)
The Absent Body (4) 4.33 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Freedom and Culture
Freedom and Culture 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Valuing the Self: What We Can Learn from Other Cultures
Valuing the Self: What We Can Learn from Other Cultures 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Language Habits in Human Affairs: An Introduction to General Semantics
Language Habits in Human Affairs: An Introduction to General Semantics 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Notebooks on Primitive Mentality
The Notebooks on Primitive Mentality liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common 3.70 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art 4.01 avg rating — 129,152 ratings
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Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist
Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist 3.96 avg rating — 755 ratings
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The Prose of the World (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
The Prose of the World (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) 4.21 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Less Than Words Can Say
Less Than Words Can Say 4.27 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870s
Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870s 3.86 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers: The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius
The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers: The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading
The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading 3.86 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays And Studies
The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays And Studies 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History (The Terry Lectures Series)
The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History (The Terry Lectures Series) 4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings