Posted by pinotfan on 5/17/2015 3:41:00 PM (view original):
I must admit, including The Manifesto under fiction was a barb directed specifically at you, Prof!
edit: I'd gladly pick up the gauntlet on Marx, but I don't want to hijack the thread ...
As for IP's rather selective thesis (or is it, antithesis?) I present not a book but an article, "
The Absurdity of Karl Marx’s Dialectical Fundamentalism."
For books of fiction intended as such, I'd nominate:
- Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis (or the entire Space Trilogy of which it is a brief novel number two)
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (which could double as a sports book, for bettors on the 1919 World Series)
As for classics (of a sort) or non-fiction:
- Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
- The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And especially for ItalyProf, another excellent and insightful work of non-fiction:
- On Revolution, by Hannah Arendt
And as for truth beyond our non-fiction:
- The Bible, inspired by God's singular spirit and in various ways through various streams, written by numerous men
5/24/2015 7:39 AM (edited)