Re: A book list for today's renaissance human

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu Dec 27 2001 - 21:24:35 MST


> Mortimer Adler's "The Great Ideas: A
> Lexicon of Western Thought";

Keep a large lump of halite handy for that one. Mortimer had delusions of omniscience.
I'll add some suggestions to the list soon, I hope. Wait a second. OK, here are one and a fraction:
The one:
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, absolutely, the 2nd Ed. of _The Retreat to Commitment_ by Bartley.
The fraction:
Something by Edward de Bono.
Something by Lakoff and Johnson (keep that halite handy, but it's very interesting work).

Are we alllowed any fiction?

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