15 Nonfiction Books That Will Expand Your Mind
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- In this episode, Jordan takes viewers through his favorite nonfiction books of all time. These 15 books will change your life.
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Yesss The Righteous Mind is so good! I've read it three times and that along with Factfulness by Hans Rosling and Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker would probably be the three nonfiction books I'd recommend to just about anyone. Haidt's new book The Anxious Generation is incredibly good as well. Thanks for the list, many of these were already on my TBR and I added most of the new ones as well.
Hey man, thanks for watching! Some good suggestions there. Of the books you mentioned, I'd be really interested in checking out Factfulness, by Hans Rosling. I've also been meaning to check out Haidt's new book. I had my AP class read the chapter they published in The Atlantic and listened to interviews with Haidt about the book, so I know his thesis, but I'd really like to dig into that one. Such an important and misunderstood topic.
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Cool list. TY. I'll def add some. I've read The Rise and Fall... and Sexual Personae. On mind expanding, especially since you're an author, you might like Frye's Anatomy of Criticism.
Thanks for watching! Yes, Rise and Fall was quite the revelation to me. Sexual Personae was highly strange but entrancing. Paglia is a great writer and a truly original mind. Thanks for the recommendation of Frye's Anatomy of Criticism! It's going on my TBR. Cheers!
Great list. I think you’d very much enjoy Junger’s Forest Passage and Alamariu's Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy if you haven’t read them already. Selective Breeding in particular gave me a whole new view on Socrates and Plato.
Thanks for watching. Yeah, it was a hard list to make because I was trying to avoid including any works of actual philosophy. I've read BAM, and was quite impressed, though I don't know if I'm a Nietzschean, at the end of the day. (That said, I've probably read everything Nietzsche's ever written-it's all I did when I was in college.) Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy was his dissertation, right? Is it super dense?
@@iWizard Yes it is a dissertation and fairly dense, but he edited it before releasing it in book format to make it more palatable. Definitely worth checking out if you enjoyed BAM.
These books seem to have a conservative bent (I may have misread that, I am aware) but I really love this list. It will balance out my other readings. I love reading books that wrestle with each other! 😂
Without hearing multiple sides we can’t understand anything deeply, so thank you for this smart and interesting list.
I also appreciate the books that introduce philosophy in a big picture way, it will help me learn enough to determine where to dive deeper.
Thank you for this helpful video.
To be honest, yes. A few of them do have a conservative bent, especially The Closing of the American Mind, Basic Economics, and Paul Johnson's History of the American People. That said, several of the other books-like Sexual Personae, by Camille Paglia (who at the time considered herself a radical feminist) and The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt (an avowedly liberal college professor who's only ever voted Democrat)-only seem conservative-leaning IMO because of how far the Left has moved in some areas. Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve is a very VERY liberal book. I'm like you-I love reading books that wrestle with one another and I agree with Jon Stuart Mill's maxim that "He who only knows his own side of the case knows little of that."
Thanks for watching. Cheers! :)
@@iWizard I agree! Again, thank you!
"I actually really like controversial books." Really? I wouldn't have noticed until now. Lol.
Some interesting choices, even ones I've read like The Closing of The American Mind, which I read with my high school English teacher and The Existentialist Cafe, which I did a book report on when I was in high school. I also really enjoyed Bloom's last book Love and Friendship, which might have some of the best takes on Shakespeare that I've ever read, not to discount Harold Bloom anyway.
Those other books you mention sound really fascinating, I'll have to add them to the ever expanding, always growing TBR list. I always find it hard to pick non fiction books and critique them because...they're real stories and all that. But here's some I really enjoy:
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound: One of the best books about John Coltrane, and jazz, that I've read yet. This book isn't about the what, but why and how Coltrane created the music he did. It may be due for a re-read sometime soon.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Malcolm X is a gifted storyteller, and having Alex Haley to help you write it helps a lot too. It might be my favorite book about the African American experience during Jim Crow, and it's an unforgettable book once you read it.
Into The Wild: It might be my favorite nonfiction narrative book that I've read. It didn't cynically mock Chris McCandless because of how stupid he was for doing what he did (though it does acknowledge his lack of foresight). It illustrates the tragedy of Chris' desire to live a more meaningful life, and all the people he touched along the way before he made his fateful trip to Alaska. It's some great stuff.
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: An unflinching and raw take on addiction, Bill Clegg writes with the skill of a seasoned novelist and shows what it's like to lose everything to drugs, and how Clegg decided to finally get his life on track. It really affected me as an 8th grader reading this.
Great video man!
Thanks for these recommendations, Britton! I taught The Autobiography of Malcolm X when I was just starting my career. You're right. It's a fabulous book. Speaking of, I don't know if you remember, but Malcolm X actually read Will Durant's Story of Civilization in prison; it's how he educated himself. I wonder if he read Story of Philosophy. I've also read Into the Wild.
And wow! To have read Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man as an 8th grader... that's impressive man. I think my own mind wouldn't have been developed enough to handle that at such a young age.
One book you recommended that I'll put on my TBR-Coltrane The Story of a Sound. That one sounds great!
@@iWizard I will say though, Alexander Supertramp is still the dumbest alias I’ve ever heard.
Indeed, Portrait was a tough book to read. I’ll admit that I didn’t grasp everything that was going on. That’s another one that I need to re-read