| Posted by | Message |
HailHailtoMichigan! 
Michigan Fan
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
5176 posts
| What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:40 pm)
For me, it's the fountainhead and witness.
|
| Back to top | Share on  |
SlowFlowPro 
Stanford Fan
Equality is a circle, not a =
Member since Jan 2004
263343 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
i don't read 
|
| Back to top | |
AlaTiger 
LSU Fan
Alabama
Member since Aug 2006
9987 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
The Bible.
|
| Back to top | |
BTHog 
Arkansas Fan
Member since Jul 2012
7093 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:43 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
The Prince
|
| Back to top | |
HailHailtoMichigan!
Michigan Fan
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
5176 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:44 pm to BTHog)
quote:
The Prince
Possibly the most significant and influential book of all time.
This post was edited on 11/11 at 9:45 pm
|
| Back to top | |
carbola
Michigan Fan
Middle East
Member since Aug 2010
3368 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:44 pm to BTHog)
LINK
|
| Back to top | |
RunningBlake
Arkansas Fan
Member since Aug 2011
1260 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:45 pm to carbola)
Turner Diaries
|
| Back to top | |
TigerNAtux
LSU Fan
I-59...3 Hours a day
Member since Dec 2007
5632 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Twilight
Not really. TD Political board is the correct answer.
|
| Back to top | |
BTHog
Arkansas Fan
Member since Jul 2012
7093 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
quote:
Possibly the most significant and influential book of all time.
well no, that would be the Bible of course.
|
| Back to top | |
Tigah in the ATL
LSU Fan
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2005
20589 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:47 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
The Bible
7 habits of highly effective people
|
| Back to top | |
Aristo
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2007
2773 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:50 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Overthrow (book)
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq is a book published in 2006 by award-winning New York Times foreign correspondent and author Stephen Kinzer about the United States's involvement in the overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present. According to Kinzer, the first such instance was the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, and continuing to America-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. His examples include mini-histories of the U.S.-supported or encouraged coups d'état in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Honduras, Iran, Guatemala, South Vietnam, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq.Some examples used in the book refer to American support for local rebels against the existing national governments that lead to a change in power. For example, in 1898, the United States helped overthrow the government of Cuba by supporting local rebels who were already fighting their government. In other circumstances, such as in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, the United States initiated, planned and orchestrated the regime change.
|
| Back to top | |
BigAppleTiger
LSU Fan
New York City
Member since Dec 2008
5167 posts
 Online
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
A Fool's Errand by Albion Tourgee
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
|
| Back to top | |
HailHailtoMichigan!
Michigan Fan
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
5176 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:54 pm to BigAppleTiger)
quote:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
I didn't expect that answer from you. 
This post was edited on 11/11 at 9:55 pm
|
| Back to top | |
junkfunky
LSU Fan
I can't find my village
Member since Jan 2011
9795 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 9:57 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
I wish liberals could just accept the fact that I do not like green eggs and ham.
ETA: However, I do empathise with the lorax.
This post was edited on 11/11 at 10:00 pm
|
| Back to top | |
wm72
New York/Roma
Member since Mar 2010
3105 posts
Online
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 10:04 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Michel Foucault'sThe Order of Things
Jacques Derrida's Writing and Difference
|
| Back to top | |
HempHead 
Alabama Fan
Appalachia
Member since Mar 2011
10139 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 10:05 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard
|
| Back to top | |
TN Bhoy 
USA Fan
Philly
Member since Apr 2010
33584 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 10:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Catechism of the Council of Trent
City of God - St. Augustine of Hippo
What's Wrong with the World - GK Chesterton
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke
A Crisis of Civilization - Hilaire Belloc
|
| Back to top | |
HempHead
Alabama Fan
Appalachia
Member since Mar 2011
10139 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 10:07 pm to wm72)
quote:
Michel Foucault
The Hermeneutical Invasion
quote:
Indeed, a crucial point about the hermeneuticians is that, for them, incomprehensibility is a self-fulfilling prophecy. As a colleague of mine ruefully told me: "I have read everything on hermeneutics I can lay my hands on, and I understand no more about it than I did when I first started." Even in a profession — philosophy — not exactly famous for its sparkle or lucidity, one of the most remarkable qualities of the hermeneuticians is their horrendous and incomparably murky style. Stalactites and stalagmites of jargon words are piled upon each other in a veritable kitchen midden of stupefying and meaningless prose. Hermeneuticians seem to be incapable of writing a clear English, or indeed a clear German sentence. Critics of hermeneutics — such as Jonathan Barnes or David Gordon[1] —are understandably moved to satire, to stating or quoting hermeneutical tracts and then "translating" them into simple English, where invariably they are revealed as either banal or idiotic.
Describes Foucault pretty well.
|
| Back to top | |
TN Bhoy
USA Fan
Philly
Member since Apr 2010
33584 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 10:07 pm to wm72)
quote:
Foucault
quote:
Derrida
 
This post was edited on 11/11 at 10:08 pm
|
| Back to top | |
mmcgrath
LSU Fan
New Jersey
Member since Feb 2010
2147 posts
| re: What book has had the greatest influence on you politically and philosophically? (Posted on 11/11/12 at 10:09 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!)
Beginnings by Isaac Asimov
|
| Back to top | |
