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Occidental Wisdom
A Listmania! list by Lucian Taylor (West Yorkshire)

1. Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson

The list author says:
	"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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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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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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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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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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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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7. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre

The list author says:
	"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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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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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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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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11. Process and Reality (Gifford lectures) by Alfred North Whitehead

The list author says:
	"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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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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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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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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15. William Morris on Art and Socialism by William Morris

The list author says:
	"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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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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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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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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19. Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

The list author says:
	"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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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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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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22. The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx

The list author says:
	"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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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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24. The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley

The list author says:
	"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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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."