Occidental Wisdom

A Listmania! list by Lucian Taylor (West Yorkshire)
 
Creative Evolution
1.  Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
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  "Bergson’s optimistic vision of life and consciousness is a potent rejoinder to the narrow materialism suffocating Western thought, and far more likely to aim at anything resembling ‘truth.’"
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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
2.  The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by William Blake
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  "Through his prophetic verse, Blake wrought a religious system which unites Gnosticism, Romanticism, and British legend, exalting the imagination as the highest faculty of man."
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The Complex Vision
3.  The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
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  "Today, Powys the thinker is even more neglected than Powys the novelist, but few other writers have articulated such a transcendent philosophy of life."
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Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature
4.  Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature by Arthur Machen
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  "Machen’s theory of art puts naturalism and realism in their place, and helps us understand how aesthetics can be a much healthier substitute for religious dogma in the modern world."
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The Outsider
5.  The Outsider by Colin Wilson
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  "Wilson takes ideas first propounded by existentialism and hammers them into an altogether more life affirming doctrine, drawing on an impressive array of philosophical and artistic sources."
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Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
6.  Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle by C. G. Jung
The list author says:
  "From his empirical observation of symbolic archetypes and ‘meaningful coincidences’ Jung elevates the collective unconscious to a metaphysical principle and philosophy of pan-psychism."
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Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics)
7.  Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  "More a visionary than a philosopher, Sartre offers a compelling theory of human freedom which seeks to release us from submission to external concepts of value and take responsibility for ourselves"
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Rant In E-Minor
8.  Rant In E-Minor by Bill Hicks
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  "Although he probably wouldn’t have liked it said of him, Hicks could easily be called a prophet. He came to show us where we were going wrong, and too much of what he feared has come to pass."
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The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin Classics)
9.  The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin Classics) by William James
The list author says:
  "James understood that whilst most religion is merely ignorant superstition and dogma, at its core lies an experiential state which is undoubtedly real and probably valuable, whatever its explanation."
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The Masks of God : Creative Mythology Vol. 4
10.  The Masks of God : Creative Mythology Vol. 4 by Joseph Campbell
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  "The final part of the Masks of God series draws together countless theories of existence from across the world in a staggering work of synthesis."
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Process and Reality (Gifford lectures)
11.  Process and Reality (Gifford lectures) by Alfred North Whitehead
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  "Modern philosophy may be suspicious of metaphysics but Whitehead is too often overlooked, despite providing a system which can accommodate both quantum theory and the reality of consciousness."
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism, the
12.  The Soul of Man Under Socialism, the by Oscar Wilde
The list author says:
  "A much less austere vision of socialism than that presented by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky et al, focusing instead on the potential it has for transforming human nature."
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Phenomenology of Perception: An Introduction (Routledge Classics)
13.  Phenomenology of Perception: An Introduction (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The list author says:
  "Merleau-Ponty refines Sartre’s doctrine of radical freedom by asserting that our being-in-the-world is the very condition of that freedom, thus circumventing Jean-Paul’s latent dualism."
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Lights Out for the Territory
14.  Lights Out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
The list author says:
  "Combining an extraordinary amount of learning with terse, modernist prose, Sinclair demonstrates the influence of the ‘genius loci’ on human psychology, and vice versa."
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William Morris on Art and Socialism
15.  William Morris on Art and Socialism by William Morris
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  "A man of many talents, in addition to his unique and captivating design work, Morris expounded a profoundly humane socialist philosophy, advocating beauty for all."
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Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio (Classics)
16.  Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio (Classics) by Soren Kierkegaard
The list author says:
  "Overlook the theology, and Kierkegaard presents a wonderfully scathing attack on the vanity of reason, reasserting the value of subjectivity, paradox and absurdity to Western thought."
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The Silence of Amor; And Where the Forest Murmurs
17.  The Silence of Amor; And Where the Forest Murmurs by Fiona MacLeod
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  "Ostensibly a series of nature essays, but really the source of a potent Celtic mysticism and some of the most lyrical prose in modern English."
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The Voice That Thunders
18.  The Voice That Thunders by Alan Garner
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  "Here Garner illuminates the themes that have informed his novels, and indeed his life, tracing the relationship between landscape and history."
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Being and Time
19.  Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
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  "At last, a philosopher who understood that our being-in-the-world is fundamental, and that knowledge divorced from this is a derived mode of existence, neither definitive or especially valuable."
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind)
20.  The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind) by David J. Chalmers
The list author says:
  "In an age when mainstream philosophy of mind is dominated by blinkered physicalists like Daniel Dennett, Chalmers makes a valiant stand for the fundamentality of consciousness."
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Tertium Organum or the Third Canon of Thought and a Key to the Enigmas of the World.
21.  Tertium Organum or the Third Canon of Thought and a Key to the Enigmas of the World. by P.D. Ouspensky
The list author says:
  "Before falling under Gurdjieff’s influence, Ouspensky propagated his own, more beguiling philosophy, which seeks to reawaken human knowledge to a reality beyond that given by naturalism."
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The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics)
22.  The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
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  "As the man himself said, ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.’"
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The World as Will and Representation - Volume 1: v. 1
23.  The World as Will and Representation - Volume 1: v. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
The list author says:
  "Schopenhauer was amongst the first to introduce Eastern thought to the West and whilst his philosophy is unduly pessimistic, his asceticism is tempered by a faith in the liberating potential of art."
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The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics)
24.  The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley
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  "One of the most eloquent and humanistic advocates of conscious evolution through ‘mystical experience,’ Huxley also spoke from extensive personal acquaintance."
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Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry
25.  Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry by Owen Barfield
The list author says:
  "Barfield demonstrates how our use of increasingly detached language to impose artificial structure on the world threatens to divorce us from the visceral experience of reality."
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