Influential books
In case I ever had to bring a limited number of books with me to a desert island — or, better, to a little village in the Apennines — which ones would I choose? The following are books that were especially relevant to me, in the reversed order in which I read them, like a stratification in the spirit.
- Wikipedia in English — 2001-
- Nuove vie dell'ontologia « Neue Wege der Ontologie [New ways of ontology] / Nicolai Hartmann — 1942
- Classification and information control / "Classification Research Group" — Library association : 1969
- The subject approach to information # 5th ed / Anthony Charles Foskett — Library association : 1996
- L'altra faccia dello specchio « Die Ruckseite des Spiegels : Versuch einer Naturgeschichte menschlichen Erkennens [Behind the mirror : a search for a natural history of human knowledge] / Konrad Z Lorenz — 1973
- Satori « Satori : ou, un début en zazen / Jacques Brosse — Laffont : 1976
- L'orologiaio cieco « The blind watchmaker / Richard Dawkins — Longman : 1986
- Amore e odio « Liebe und Hass : zur Naturgeschichte elementarer Verhaltensweisen [Love and hate] / Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt — Piper : 1970
- Fuga dalla libertà « Escape from freedom / Erich Fromm — 1941
- Etica « Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata / Baruch Spinoza — 1677
- lettera a Meneceo [letter to Menoeceus] / Epicurus : about 300 BC
- Viaggio nel mondo del paranormale : indagine sulla parapsicologia [An enquiry into parapsychology] / Piero Angela — Garzanti : 1979
- i quattro Vangeli [the four Gospels] : about 100 AD
- L'anello di re Salomone « Er redete mit dem Vieh, den Vögeln und den Fischen [King Solomon's ring : new light on animal ways] / Konrad Z Lorenz — 1949