Boeken zijn voor mij altijd stille metgezellen geweest — niet alleen iets om te lezen, maar iets om te voelen. Sommige hielden me overeind toen ik uit elkaar viel. Andere openden vragen waarvan ik niet wist dat ik ze met me meedroeg. Hier verzamel ik ze.
Filosofie & ethiek
Plato — The Republic, Phaedrus, Phaedo, Symposium, Timaeus, The Laws
Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Rhetoric
Immanuel Kant — Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgment, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Perpetual Peace
Hegel — The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic, Philosophy of Right, Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, On the Genealogy of Morality, Ecce Homo
Rousseau — The Social Contract, Discourse on Inequality, Emile, Confessions
Jean Baudrillard — Simulacra and Simulation, The Consumer Society, Symbolic Exchange and Death, America
Literatuur & fictie
Leo Tolstoy — War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, A Confession, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
George Orwell — 1984, Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, The Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out in Paris and London
J.R.R. Tolkien — The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin
Isaac Asimov — Foundation series, I Robot, The Gods Themselves, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
Wetenschap & psychologie
Robert Sapolsky — A Primate's Memoir, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, The Trouble with Testosterone, Monkeyluv, Behave, Determined
Simon Baron-Cohen — Mindblindness, The Essential Difference, Prenatal Testosterone in Mind, Zero Degrees of Empathy, The Pattern Seekers
Richard Dawkins — The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth
Antiek drama & epische poëzie
Homer — The Iliad, The Odyssey, Homeric Hymns
Sophocles — Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra, Ajax
Euripides — Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, Electra
Aristophanes — Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds
William Shakespeare — Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice
Politiek denken
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels — The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital (Vol. I–III), The German Ideology, Critique of the Gotha Programme
Mikhail Bakunin — Statism and Anarchy, God and the State, The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State
Noam Chomsky — Manufacturing Consent, Syntactic Structures, Hegemony or Survival, Who Rules the World?
Slavoj Žižek — The Sublime Object of Ideology, Violence, First as Tragedy Then as Farce, The Courage of Hopelessness
Spiritualiteit & mystiek
Carl Gustav Jung — The Red Book, Man and His Symbols, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Memories Dreams Reflections
Jiddu Krishnamurti — Freedom from the Known, The First and Last Freedom, Think on These Things, The Awakening of Intelligence
Iamblichus — On the Mysteries, Life of Pythagoras
Griekse literatuur
Nikos Kazantzakis — Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, Freedom or Death, Report to Greco, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Renos Apostolidis — Pyramid 67, I Accuse, The Furies, Anthology of Modern Greek Literature
Herodotus — Histories
Met warmte, Elli