Which of these are worth reading and which should be avoided?
Very Short Introductions
Easton Price
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David Gray
Good;
Aristotle
Art Theory
Barthes
Classics
Complexity
Egyptian Myth
Empire
German Philosophy
Literary Theory
Poststructualism
Bad
Hegel
Marx
Seriously, both of the two above were written by Peter Singer. Multiple Hegel scholars has remarked that they believe that Singer wrote them out of spite because he hates Hegel and Marx and he wanted to poison the well on their scholarship but writing intentionally wrong and shitty introductions.
Michael Thompson
Not that user but I would add the Hume one to the bad list. It was not actually an introduction but more of a repacked essay by an academic that quarrels over a particularly narrow part of his philosophy.
Grayson Powell
It would be cool to make a img where they are listed as good or bad and why.
Evan Richardson
Can someone explain to me what I would benefit from reading Very Short Introductions?
Is it supposed to be something I read to see if I enjoy it? Or to understand the basis of what it is?
Nathan Davis
They purport to provide a 100 page summary of a field of study and a bibliography of important works in that field. How you benefit from that is up to you. My hope is that I can use them to expand my breadth of knowledge without committing to full-length textbooks or masses of primary sources.
Nathan Myers
Thanks anons. More suggestions/warnings welcome.
This would be cool. A flowchart would be interesting as well. I'll probably make one for the books I read, but there's so many of them.
Matthew Cooper
>over 500 titles in the series
better get started lol
Austin Russell
Good:
>Aristotle
>author is a Professor of Ancient Philosophy, edited a complete collection of Aristotle's works
>Classics
>edited by two respected experienced classics scholars, one of which described as "Britain's best-known classicist"
>German Philosophy
>author respected by other German philosophers like Frank and Habermas and also is a translator of Schelling and Schleiermacher
Bad:
>Hegel and Mark
>author's only significant work on animal rights
This may be cherry picking but I think there's an easy way to know if the book you're reading will be shit or not.
Jacob Collins
I got the Spanish civil war one and its just too fucking short.