What books do you feel you gained some actual knowledge from?

Freud, Jung, Lacan

You can do both, they are not mutually exclusive

What does "actual knowledge" mean?

I think you gain more knowledge about authors than the actual books they wrote. You know, like to answer questions on Jeopardy you don't actually need to read the books.

Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche

Justified true belief.

Most of them. Even the books that were bad, I learned what position that person held.

>Simulacra and Simulation
>The Epic of Gilgamesh
>Revelation
>Genealogy of Morals
>The Ego and Its Own
>The Vital Illusion
>Mumonkan
>Man and Technics
>Decline of the West
>Zhuangzi
>Mulamadhyakakakarika
>Chandogya Upanishad
>The Secret Doctrine
>The Heart Sutra
>Industrial Society and its Future
>Speed and Politics
>War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Notes from the Underground
>Corpus Hermeticum
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>The Social Contract
>The Wealth of Nations
>Common Sense
>The Secret Teachings of All Ages
>Book of Lies
>Giordano Bruno’s collected writings
>Marriage of Heaven and Hell
>Han-Shan’s collected poems, Cold Mountain specifically
>Shobogenzo
>Book of Daniel
>Pistis Sophia

The Lord of the Rings

very nice

Lonesome Dove
Aztec
Shantaram
Odyssey
The Death of Ivan Ilyich