One of the delights of old age is having the time and capacity to download and skim the books available on the internet – whether it’s the archive site which, sadly, has been attacked by book publishers and forced to remove half a million books from its site. So read the undernoted books while you can!
- Fascists Michael Mann( 2004) Mann is one of the most interesting sociologists - The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right ed P Davis and D Lynch
(2002) - Russell Jacoby is an underrated writer and I recommend 4 of his books
The End of Utopia (1982/1999)Dogmatic Wisdom – cultural wars (1994)Future Imperfect R Jacoby (2005)On Diversity (2020)
- Absent Minds Stefan Collini (2006) A fantastic british specialist in intellectual history - Good and Bad Power – the ideals and betrayals of government Geoff Mulgan
(2006). One of my favourite writers - The Shock of the Old – technology and global history since 1900 David Edgerton
(2008) A great english economic historian - The Dictionary of Alternatives M Parker et al (2007) offers superb insights
into utopian thought - Social Justice isn’t what you think it is M Novak and P Adams (2015) great
read which deals with the Catholic origins of the topic - The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements ed D Snow et al (2016)
An important topic for me - Out of the Ordinary Marc Stears (2021) There’s been a lot of talk since
Brexit about english identity – although the lead contender for the Tory leadership couldn’t give a clear answer last week to the simple question about what it was. He should have read this book - War and Social Theory Neal Curtis (2006) Not quite what you expect with
the opening chapter focusing on Heidegger - Hate in Precarious Times Neal Curtis (2021) should be read with Passionate Politics
– emotions and social movements J Goodwin et al (2001)
- The Marxists ed C Wright Mills (1962) The famous US sociologist was not a Marxist – so this book (which I wasn’t aware of until downloading it) is a fair-minded assessment of what the doctrine offers. - Philosophers of Technology SB Hansen (2020) Disappointing for me since
the author fails to cover the writers I’m familiar with such as Jacques Ellul, Neil Postman and Jerry Mander - Technology and the Virtues – a philosophical guide to a future worth wanting
Shannon Vallor (2016). The US author, who recently moved to Scotland, has been exploring the effects of technology for 2 decades - The AI Mirror – how to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine thinking
Shannon Vallor (2024) A good read - Liberalism in neoliberal times ed J Petley et al (2017) Liberalism has been
under attack for the past few years – and rightly so – but it remains important to distinguish it from neoliberalism. Also worth reading is Liberalism and the challenge of climate change Chris Shaw (2024) only 149 pages!
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