What I'm reading

I kept one of these last year, but forgot to update it, so here’s my attempt to do it instead on Substack.

This is a log of what I’m reading. I’ll bold the highest priority ones, which I’m actually trying to finish. I often dip in and out, so books may appear in multiple months as I resume them. This is as much for my own sanity as it is for anything else.

2025

March

  • Thomas Kuhn, The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn, ed. Bojana Mladenović (2022)

  • W. K. C. Guthrie, “The ‘Nomos’–‘Physis’ Antithesis in Morals and Politics” (2015)

  • Émile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912)

  • Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (1997)

  • Interview with Rei Kawakubo (2013)

  • Nietzsche, Zarathustra (1885)

  • Possehl, Gregory L. Harappan Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective (1982)

  • Nāgārjuna. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna’s Mülamadhyamakakārikā. Jay Garfield (1995)

  • Westerhoff, Jan. Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction (2009)

  • Marx and Engels’s German Ideology Manuscripts: Presentation and Analysis of the Feuerbach Chapter. Trans. T. Carver and Daniel Blank (2014)

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu, trans. The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya. (2012) (can be more specific — comment if you want verses!)

  • Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Tiny Experiments (2025)

  • Cohen, Signe. ‘Schopenhauer and the Upaniṣads’. In The Upaniṣads: A Complete Guide, edited by Signe Cohen. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

  • Alexander Luria, Cognitive Development (1936): finished!

  • William James, A Pluralistic Universe (1909)

  • Jessica Frazier, “Against Infinite Nothingness” (2024)

  • Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk

  • Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation

  • Alasdair MacIntyre, Marcuse

  • Zipyorn’s translation of the Zhuangzi

  • Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

  • Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

February

  • Wittgenstein, Culture and Values

  • Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882)

  • Schopenhauer, World as Will and Representation, vol I (1818)

  • Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief” (1877)

  • Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature

  • David Pears, Wittgenstein

  • Dawid Rogacz (ed.), Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers (2024)

  • Marcel Mauss, “The Techniques of the Body”

  • Zipyorn’s translation of the Zhuangzi

  • Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

  • Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

January

  • Marcel Mauss et al, The Category of the Person

  • Lev Vygotsky, The Vygotsky Anthology, ed. Myra Barrs (2024)

  • Tobias Dantzig, Number: The Language of Science

  • Daniel Dor, The Instruction of the Imagination (2015)

  • Isaiah Berlin, Concepts and Categories

  • Hannah Arendt, “What Is Existential Philosophy?”

  • Schopenhauer, World as Will and Representation, vol II (1844)

  • Jonathan D. Culler, Saussure

  • Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets (2018)

  • Zipyorn’s translation of the Zhuangzi

To get/start/continue

  • Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (~200 CE)

  • Gadamer, Truth and Method (1960)

  • Vygotsky, Thought and Language

Updated 2025-03-10