Next round of books
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michael brewer
May 27, 2026, 1:54:03 PMMay 27
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Folks,
Time to nominate our next round of books! The process is simple. You can propose up to two books that we will be reading starting in September of this year.
Send an email to the Sunday Philosophers group, proposing your book(s). For each book you can provide a short description calculated to persuade other group members to vote for your book. At a minimum you can include a link to a review of the book; for example, link to the book on Amazon.
Let’s set a deadline for nominations of midnight June 29. I will then put all the proposed books in a spreadsheet and send the list out to everyone in our group. I’ll describe voting procedures at that time.
Mike Brewer
Mike DiFilippo
May 27, 2026, 3:02:16 PMMay 27
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Dear Fellow Philosophy Students,
Here are my recommendations for our next round of reading:
1. The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
by Stephen Holmes (Author), Ivan Krastev (Author)
2. Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice
by Stephen Holmes (Author), Ivan Krastev (Author)
by Jonathan Quong
Mike
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Angie Boyter
May 27, 2026, 5:24:05 PMMay 27
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Steven Clark Cunningham
May 30, 2026, 1:11:33 AMMay 30
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Dear Philosophy Friends,
Here are my two nominations:
This is a delightful combination of physics, philosophy, and socio-politics, and how they’ve influenced each other over the course of the last hundred years of the quantum revolution(s) (I believe we are currently in the second quantum revolution).
Winner of the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Award, this book is written by a pretty nice guy.
Cheers,
Steve
Steven Clark Cunningham, MD, MLA, FACS
- HPB and General Surgeon
- Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital
- Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center
- Religious Literacy Scholar, Harvard Extension School
- Children's Book Author
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Angie Boyter
May 30, 2026, 3:26:39 AMMay 30
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ALERT TO STEVE AND OTHERS: BOYTERS DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY BOOK THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE ON AUDIO. DAVID WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO READ IT.
PS I enjoyed Steve's book, for those who can read print.
Angie Boyter
May 30, 2026, 3:31:55 AMMay 30
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I realized I used a bad message subject, so our nominations would not go with everyone else's.
Angie
David
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223736214-breakneck
Predictably Irrational
Angie
Mama's Last Hug
The Good Life
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Svend Hovmand
May 30, 2026, 1:47:02 PMMay 30
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Mike,
Here is my first suggestion for a book to read .
Michael J. Sandel " Democracy's Discontent " A new edition for our perilous times "
( I do not think the group read the first edition published in 1996 )
From the preface to the new edition:
In the years since the first edition of this book was published democracy's discontent has deepened,
becoming so acute as to raise doubts about the future of America's democracy.
In this new edition (published 2022) ,which takes the story through Clinton-Bush-Obama years
to the presidency of Donald Trump and the Covid-19 pandemic,I try to explain why.
For the new edition, I have dropped the constitutional account and focus instead on debates about the economy.
Seeing how these debates evolved during the age of globalization may help us to understand
how we arrived at this political moment.
From the preface to the original edition:
Philosophy may indulge our moral aspirations, but politics deals in recalcitrant facts.
Indeed , some would say the trouble with American democracy is that we take our ideals too
seriously,that our zeal for reform outruns our respect for the gap between theory and practice.
But if political philosophy is unrealizable in one sense, it is unavoidable in another.
This is the sense in which philosophy inhabits the world from the start; our practices and institutions
are embodiments of theory. We could hardly describe our political life,much less engage in it, without
recourse to a language laden with theory - of rights and obligations,citizenship and freedom,democracy
and law.
Svend
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Steven Clark Cunningham
May 31, 2026, 9:22:29 AMMay 31
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Yes, thanks for the reminder, Angie. I was thinking that David could listen to it on Speechify or similar apps which have become quite good lately (or, if you are so inclined, the book is so short that you could read it aloud to him). Just a thought.
Kindly,
Steve
Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse typos, etc.
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Svend Hovmand
Jun 4, 2026, 3:53:36 PMJun 4
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Mikei
Here is my second proposal for a book next year. It is a biography of Søren Kierkegaard ,which I thought was
a better introduction to Kierkegaard, as his own writings can be quite difficult to read.
Clare Carlisle,Reader in Philosophy and Theology at King's College,London ,writes about Kierkegaard's remarkable life
as far as possible from his own perspective,conveying what it was like to be this Socrates of Christendom - as he put it
living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.
From the preface of "Philosopher of the heart":
'A love affair is always an instructive theme regarding what it means to exist' wrote Søren Kierkegaard, after his only
love affair had ended in a broken engagement. Kierkegaard did philosophy by looking at life from the inside,
and more than any other philosopher he brought his own life into his own work.His romantic crisis yielded insights
into human freedom and identity that earned him an enduring reputation as the 'father of existentialisme'.
He created a new philosophical style ,rooted in the inward drama of being human. Although he was a difficult person-
and perhaps dangerous as an exemplar - he was inspirational in his willingness to bear witness to the human condition.
He became an expert in love and suffering ,humour and anxiety , despair and courage ; he made these affairs of the heart
the subject of his philosophy, and his writing has reached the hearts of generations of readers.
Svend
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Angie Boyter
Jun 15, 2026, 3:04:35 PMJun 15
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Please delete David's nomination of Predictably Irrational and would like to substitute Exercised: Ehy Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman.
michael brewer
Jun 16, 2026, 5:28:10 PMJun 16
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folks,
About two weeks before we close nominations. I’m eager to see more! If you haven’t nominated, please do so.
Mike Brewer
Angie Boyter
Jun 18, 2026, 8:53:52 AMJun 18
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Mike,
Maybe you should set a good example. I do not see any nominations from you!!
Angie
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