#117 – Sheldon Solomon

21 Aug 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #117:

1. Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why by Ellen Dissanayake
2. Dreamthorp by Alexander Smith
3. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
4. Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker
5. The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man by Ernest Becker
6. The Worm at the Core: On the role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon
7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
8. False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism by John Gray
9. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
10. Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life by Sherwood Anderson
11. Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Wilson
12. History Of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong
13. In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf
14. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
15. Consciousness regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind by Nicholas Humphrey
16. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
17. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
18. The Dead by James Joyce
19. The Plague by Albert Camus
20. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
21. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
22. The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
23. Books by Richard D. Wolff
24. Books by Adam Smith
25. Books by Malcolm Gladwell

Sheldon Solomon is an American social psychologist at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. He earned his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and his doctoral degree from the University of Kansas. Wikipedia

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