Reply #15: Not Pure Philosophy, but [View All]

[On the Road]

My ex-wife had a PhD in Philosophy. I tried to read Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, etc, but I could never get through them. I prefer books on other subjects that have a philosophical bent.

I love Alan Watt's books like The Wisdom of Insecurity, although they tend to be popularizations of Eastern philosophy. He is really the only interpreter of Buddhism that makes any kind of sense to me.

I also love Eric Fromm's The Anatomy of Human Aggression and Eernest Becker's The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil. Very rewarding view of the darker side of human nature.