Which Books to read for intellectual enrichment?

Question

I have recently bought books that go as follows:

Deleuze/Guatarri - Thousand Plateaus

Sartre- Critique of Dialectical Reason Vol. 1 (Have begun to read this one....very interesting)

Alain Badiou: Being and Event

Vico: The New Science

Dauben: Georg Cantor

Kant: The Second and Third Critiques

Che Guevara: 3 Manifestos

Subcommandante Marcos: Our Word is Our Sword and The Speed of Dreams

I just wish to know what would be most beneficial.

Answer 1

If it is intellectual enrichment you are looking for, then you are already on your way,the logical thing to do is to continue reading the book you have started.This is most beneficial in maintaining your prime directive.(to gain intellectual enrichment)To stop reading and change from a book you say is "very interesting" would be to avoid logic altogether.

Answer 2

If you really want our opinions, you wouldn't mind if I butt in, would you?

If you have the time, read everything. You can't enrich yourself with just one of those books---you bought them so read all of them. ^__^

And I think the better question is "what to read first?" Then that is where your preference would lie--you choose one that is more interesting to you.

All books are beneficial. All books have a lot of things--different things--to share and to impart. If you want to have intellectual enrichment, learn from all the books you have read. There is no such thing as a MOST BENEFICIAL BOOK. All books are the best ones in their own special way. I hope this wouldn't come out bad but---it would rather be very offensive if one would even try to claim that this specific book is the BEST of all. Or most beneficial.

I wish you a more enriched time as you go through all your lovely books. And if you could still find more time, buy/borrow more books so your mind won't end up in stagnancy. The world changes every second--there is so much for us to learn and read---isn't that exciting?

Hope I helped.

^__^

Answer 3

I feel that people should learn through experience as equally as book, but, here are a few suggestions. Although you seem to be a fan of the same genre, I'll give you some diversity, and a few books that make you create your own opinion and explore othre genres, not adopt someone elses.

The Rule of Four: The hypnerotomachia.

1 Litre of Tears Diary

Glen Lowry (Modern Art History)

These books will show you that being "intellectual" isnt always about factual events and philosophy of the mind, etcetera, etcetera....

Answer 4

If you want to sort through many of the things we are taught in a Western culture, I would say the most beneficial book would be "Gospel Enigma." It's satirical, and yet fun to read but mostly just full of surprising information. It unscrambles 2000 years of faulty theology and explains how to unlock your inner resources. It covers a number of Genres and is a free read.

Answer 5

Forget it! Try A Short History of Time by Stephen Hawkings
Cheers Claude

Answer 6

edward abbey
F. Scott Fitzgerald
mark twain
george sand
steven crain
T Lawrence

Orwell 1984
ayn rand atlas shrugged
animu/animus,Jung
charles dickens, all
john mcphee all
Freud, Intro
jane austin all
Ambrose Bierce
Gettysburg
caldwell (environment)
darwin
Aquinis
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
The Koran
Plato Republic
Oscar wilde
Camus & Sarte
Siddartha, hesse
thomas more

baldwin
Erasmus

Hobbes
To kill mockingbird
Molere
the epantisheds
east of eden
Locke man
grapes of wrath
stienbeck,J

That's a great list you have there and I admit to only having read a few of them.
The list I give you is not at all comprehensive but merely a taste of some truly enjoyable and enlightening reading.

Answer 7

i might propose an Alexandre Dumas novel first and optimum, The count form of Monte Cristo. additionally yet another Bronte in case you're comprehensive Wuthering Heights, Jayne Eyre. it fairly is a marginally feminist novel, yet an exceedingly talked-approximately one that replaced into seen to be beforehand of it fairly is time. as properly, To Kill a Mockingbird, the great Gatsby and Moby Dick. in case you have been as much as examining finished performs, i urge you to verify Hamlet, and once you're comprehensive, watch the Kenneth Branagh action picture sort. through some distance the superb, for my area. i might additionally propose Stephen King to you, (extra particularly the darkish Tower sequence, yet any are fantastic) as they through no ability for somebody of low intelligence, yet perchance you're actually not one to verify those styles of books, and perchance you're actually not sufficiently previous. in spite of the undeniable fact that, in case you have already got a destructive opinion in this author, i desire which you will not permit that impression my different e book suggestions. right here is that checklist back, -The count form of Monte Cristo -Jayne Eyre -To Kill a Mockingbird -the great Gatsby -Moby Dick -Hamlet (perchance The Gunslinger, the 1st of the sequence i discussed). desire this helps you.

Answer 8

The Cosmo-Conception ~ Max Heindel

Anything by Max Heindel

Go to http://www.sacred-texts.com/ and click on Esoteric.

Answer 9

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Answer 10

Well, as we seem to be running out of time because God's patience is almost exhausted, it might be advisable to read the following publications so that you are at least prepared to face the inevitable :

MARY FOR ALL CHRISTIANS.....John Macquarie
A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN.....John j. Delaney
MEDJUGORJE-THE MESSAGE....Wayne Weible
ONE DAY AT A TIME, A WALK WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT...Kathrine Douglas
THE HISTORY AND SPIRITUALITY OF WALSINGHAM...Sr.Elizabeth Ruth Obbard