Macrobius
Megaphoron
via the archives: http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum...ded-reading-list-both-fiction-and-non-fiction
Do continue!
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I put this together for SN at Whitespace, where it's been a topic of discussion several evenings running. Sharing here. The Phora has done lots of book threads -- feel free to link your favourites below!
This has been a running topic in the SB for a number of nights. I'll put down some of my recommendations, and others can chime in on what I missed.
Political Foundations and Jurisprudence
Guenon and Evola, all - start with Evola's Orientations http://gornahoor.net
Spengler, Decline of the West and Our Socialism
Hobbes and Filmer: http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...mer-and-hobbes
Yockey, Imperium -- the preface was ghostwritten by Revilo P. Oliver, whose collected works are interesting, even if KAS's bitch tried to burn them all.
Ludovici https://www.anthonymludovici.com/texts.htm - esp. Defence of Aristocracy and Defence of Conservatism
Bolingbroke, The Idea of a Patriot King
Pound, Radio Addresses
Oswald Mosley, selected works: http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...union-movement
Carl Schmitt, all, esp. Concept of the Political, Political Theology, Nomos of the Earth
- The Concept of Southern Politics http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...thern-politics
Discussion of Political Esotericism (essential): http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...al-esotericism
http://whale.to ... all
Passive Obedience as a political theory (Hobbes, Filmer, Seabury, and Kinists agree on this): http://macrobius.blogspot.com (my original blog)
Southern Politics, Race, Slavery etc
Fitzhugh etc (on Slavery): http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...ames-thornwell
Calhoun, Disquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disq..._on_Government
American HIstory (if interested)
Magnalia, by Cotton Mather (2 vols.)
History of the Puritan Republic of Massachusetts Bay Colony https://www.google.com/books/edition.../selHAQAAMAAJ?
Recommendations on Southern Literature below (Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia essential, in vol 3-4 of https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/j...ferson-12-vols )
Basil Gildersleeve, all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_...u_Gildersleeve
Colbourn, The Lamp of Experience (on American Colonial politics which would really be British North American politics of course, before the Revolution) https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/c...-of-experience
20th Century History (and some 19th)
The Strange Death of Liberal England
The Long Weekend
Only Yesterday http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500831h.html
William Pierce, all
Anonymous, Silent Weapons for Silent Wars
William Cooper, Pale Horse Rider
Historical Writings of Hunter Wallace (only): http://occidentaldissent.com
Writings of John Romanides (essential) http://romanity.org/cont.htm
Anglosphere Classics
(essential reading)
Vortigern Studies, http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/v...rnhomepage.htm
Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples (4 vols)
Hackett-Fischer, Albion's Seed
Phillips, Cousins Wars https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FOPTVU...ng=UTF8&btkr=1
Huntingdon, Clash of Civilizations
Christian Religion for Westerners
St Augustine, Selected works -- Confessions and City of God
Writings of St Patricus (all)
St John Climacus, The Ladder
Writings of Maximos Confessor - https://www.amazon.com/Maximus-Confe.../dp/0809126591
Anglo-Saxon Spirituality (anthology) - https://www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxon-S.../dp/0809139502
Encyclopedist Tradition (Cassiodorus, Isidore, Bede) http://cassiodorusquodlibeta.blogspo...ssance-or.html
Pearse's Fathers, all http://tertullian.org/fathers/
Popular Science
Lee Smolin, all
Lisa Randall, all
Military Science
MCDP-1, Warfighting https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCDP 1 Warfighting.pdf [ PDF]
OSINT and Intelligence http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...r-intelligence
(for further recommendations of 'serious non-fiction' see the Audodidact's Reserve List below)
Pedagogy and Homeschooling
Dorothy Sayers, Lost Tools of Learning (Radio Address) https://ridgelightranch.com/wp-conte...f-Learning.pdf [ PDF]
/our/ Confederate Textbooks https://docsouth.unc.edu/global/resu...20of%20America.
Writings of John Taylor Gotto, all https://archive.org/stream/JohnTaylo...+Book_djvu.txt
Writings of Douglas Wilson, all (see Moscow, Idaho for deets)
Noah Webster, American Speller (redpill edition) https://www.merrycoz.org/books/spelling/SPELLING.xhtml
Writings of Susan Wise on Classical Christian Education, all https://welltrainedmind.com
Publications of Memoria Press, all https://memoriapress.com
A Modern Aristotelian Curriculum http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...ian-curriculum
Philosophy and Letters in the Modern Era
Macintyre, all esp. Trilogy: of which, After Virtue and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry essential.
CS Lewis, Allegory of Love
Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice
Stockdale's writings on Stoicism http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...age-under-fire
Writings of Bertrand Russell (all), Gottlieb Frege (all esp. Foundations of Arithmetic, Austin translation)
Writings of WVO Quine on Nominalism, esp. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (Essay) and Methods of Logic
Raymond Smullyan, all
Writings of the Southern Agrarians, all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Agrarians
- The Hind Tit (essential) http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/...cted/lytle.pdf
Writings of Clyde Wilson (essential) https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/c...ilson-library/
Writings of Jimmy Cantrell (essential) http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...riotist-essays
Demeuse http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...inton?t=112329
- http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...e-gender-fluid
Writings of Thoth at the Phora, all http://sidthomas.blogspot.com/
The Bronze Age Mindset
Collected Writings of T777 https://salo-forum.com/index.php?thr...homas777.4482/
- http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...777-s-new-book (many of which are from this forum)
Fiction: Inklings and related
All (JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Charles WIlliams are the primary authors, but there are others; Dorothy Sayers was a student and protege of Charles Williams and T.S. Eliot his mentor and advocate in poetry)
T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers (translation of Dante's Divine Comedy under the influence of Charles Williams recommended), are both closely related
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time is mandatory, and in fact part of a Trilogy (though all her fiction works are related in two parallel universes)
Fiction: Other, including mysteries and science fiction
Umberto Eco, Name of the Rose, others (a bit PC but very learned)
Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (essential)
Robert Heinlein, all
Orson Scott Card, all
Jerry Pournelle, all
Prior Art on this topic in the Crust
- The Small Library http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...-small-library
- The Auto-Didact's Reserve list (includes annotated bibliography of 600+ google books): http://purl.org/pd/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=115
- Southern Books thread: http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...n-books-thread
- Southern Literature Reading Group: http://purl.org/pd/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=327&p=1291
- Mr Jefferson's Library: http://purl.org/sti/claroline/phpbb/...ue&cidReq=L101
Do continue!
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I put this together for SN at Whitespace, where it's been a topic of discussion several evenings running. Sharing here. The Phora has done lots of book threads -- feel free to link your favourites below!
Cassiodorus rebuilt Rome. He did it through education, because "the subtle rules the dense". The Left understands this, which is why Marcuse wanted a "long march (like Sherman to the sea) through the institutions". Along with clever men of resentment like Fanon, this was accomplished, and the Left took control of the "media" of the age, a mass media designed almost deliberately to facilitate a move to the "lowest common denominator" for the new men of the technical age. The logical obscenities which followed the Left subversion of entertainment, communications, and education will be lived through, personally, by all those privileged to be alive at this moment.
How could Christians have forgotten?
We, of all people, should know that "if the Truth sets you free", a "lie will imprison your mind, and later, your spirit".
Now we must recapture lost ground, for the Truth is murdered, imprisoned, and violated every day, on a constant and regular basis. We must recapture the citadel.
This has been a running topic in the SB for a number of nights. I'll put down some of my recommendations, and others can chime in on what I missed.
Political Foundations and Jurisprudence
Guenon and Evola, all - start with Evola's Orientations http://gornahoor.net
Spengler, Decline of the West and Our Socialism
Hobbes and Filmer: http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...mer-and-hobbes
Yockey, Imperium -- the preface was ghostwritten by Revilo P. Oliver, whose collected works are interesting, even if KAS's bitch tried to burn them all.
Ludovici https://www.anthonymludovici.com/texts.htm - esp. Defence of Aristocracy and Defence of Conservatism
Bolingbroke, The Idea of a Patriot King
Pound, Radio Addresses
Oswald Mosley, selected works: http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...union-movement
Carl Schmitt, all, esp. Concept of the Political, Political Theology, Nomos of the Earth
- The Concept of Southern Politics http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...thern-politics
Discussion of Political Esotericism (essential): http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...al-esotericism
http://whale.to ... all
Passive Obedience as a political theory (Hobbes, Filmer, Seabury, and Kinists agree on this): http://macrobius.blogspot.com (my original blog)
Southern Politics, Race, Slavery etc
Fitzhugh etc (on Slavery): http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...ames-thornwell
Calhoun, Disquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disq..._on_Government
American HIstory (if interested)
Magnalia, by Cotton Mather (2 vols.)
History of the Puritan Republic of Massachusetts Bay Colony https://www.google.com/books/edition.../selHAQAAMAAJ?
Recommendations on Southern Literature below (Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia essential, in vol 3-4 of https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/j...ferson-12-vols )
Basil Gildersleeve, all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_...u_Gildersleeve
Colbourn, The Lamp of Experience (on American Colonial politics which would really be British North American politics of course, before the Revolution) https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/c...-of-experience
20th Century History (and some 19th)
The Strange Death of Liberal England
The Long Weekend
Only Yesterday http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500831h.html
William Pierce, all
Anonymous, Silent Weapons for Silent Wars
William Cooper, Pale Horse Rider
Historical Writings of Hunter Wallace (only): http://occidentaldissent.com
Writings of John Romanides (essential) http://romanity.org/cont.htm
Anglosphere Classics
(essential reading)
Vortigern Studies, http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/v...rnhomepage.htm
Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples (4 vols)
Hackett-Fischer, Albion's Seed
Phillips, Cousins Wars https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FOPTVU...ng=UTF8&btkr=1
Huntingdon, Clash of Civilizations
Christian Religion for Westerners
St Augustine, Selected works -- Confessions and City of God
Writings of St Patricus (all)
St John Climacus, The Ladder
Writings of Maximos Confessor - https://www.amazon.com/Maximus-Confe.../dp/0809126591
Anglo-Saxon Spirituality (anthology) - https://www.amazon.com/Anglo-Saxon-S.../dp/0809139502
Encyclopedist Tradition (Cassiodorus, Isidore, Bede) http://cassiodorusquodlibeta.blogspo...ssance-or.html
Pearse's Fathers, all http://tertullian.org/fathers/
Popular Science
Lee Smolin, all
Lisa Randall, all
Military Science
MCDP-1, Warfighting https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCDP 1 Warfighting.pdf [ PDF]
OSINT and Intelligence http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...r-intelligence
(for further recommendations of 'serious non-fiction' see the Audodidact's Reserve List below)
Pedagogy and Homeschooling
Dorothy Sayers, Lost Tools of Learning (Radio Address) https://ridgelightranch.com/wp-conte...f-Learning.pdf [ PDF]
/our/ Confederate Textbooks https://docsouth.unc.edu/global/resu...20of%20America.
Writings of John Taylor Gotto, all https://archive.org/stream/JohnTaylo...+Book_djvu.txt
Writings of Douglas Wilson, all (see Moscow, Idaho for deets)
Noah Webster, American Speller (redpill edition) https://www.merrycoz.org/books/spelling/SPELLING.xhtml
Writings of Susan Wise on Classical Christian Education, all https://welltrainedmind.com
Publications of Memoria Press, all https://memoriapress.com
A Modern Aristotelian Curriculum http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...ian-curriculum
Philosophy and Letters in the Modern Era
Macintyre, all esp. Trilogy: of which, After Virtue and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry essential.
CS Lewis, Allegory of Love
Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice
Stockdale's writings on Stoicism http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...age-under-fire
Writings of Bertrand Russell (all), Gottlieb Frege (all esp. Foundations of Arithmetic, Austin translation)
Writings of WVO Quine on Nominalism, esp. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (Essay) and Methods of Logic
Raymond Smullyan, all
Writings of the Southern Agrarians, all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Agrarians
- The Hind Tit (essential) http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/...cted/lytle.pdf
Writings of Clyde Wilson (essential) https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/c...ilson-library/
Writings of Jimmy Cantrell (essential) http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...riotist-essays
Demeuse http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...inton?t=112329
- http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...e-gender-fluid
Writings of Thoth at the Phora, all http://sidthomas.blogspot.com/
The Bronze Age Mindset
Collected Writings of T777 https://salo-forum.com/index.php?thr...homas777.4482/
- http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...777-s-new-book (many of which are from this forum)
Fiction: Inklings and related
All (JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Charles WIlliams are the primary authors, but there are others; Dorothy Sayers was a student and protege of Charles Williams and T.S. Eliot his mentor and advocate in poetry)
T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers (translation of Dante's Divine Comedy under the influence of Charles Williams recommended), are both closely related
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time is mandatory, and in fact part of a Trilogy (though all her fiction works are related in two parallel universes)
Fiction: Other, including mysteries and science fiction
Umberto Eco, Name of the Rose, others (a bit PC but very learned)
Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (essential)
Robert Heinlein, all
Orson Scott Card, all
Jerry Pournelle, all
Prior Art on this topic in the Crust
- The Small Library http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...-small-library
- The Auto-Didact's Reserve list (includes annotated bibliography of 600+ google books): http://purl.org/pd/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=115
- Southern Books thread: http://www.thephora.net/forum/forum/...n-books-thread
- Southern Literature Reading Group: http://purl.org/pd/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=327&p=1291
- Mr Jefferson's Library: http://purl.org/sti/claroline/phpbb/...ue&cidReq=L101