📚 9 Books mentioned in "Ancient Stories That Bridge The Heavens & The Earth | Jacob Howland | EP 536" of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Episode: Ancient Stories That Bridge The Heavens & The Earth | Jacob Howland | EP 536
Published on April 7, 2025
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Civilization and Its Discontents
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I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this
The speaker mentions a phrase from Freud's book 'Civilization and Its Discontents'.
Modern Classics Civilization and Its Discontent
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I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this
The speaker mentions a phrase from Freud's book 'Civilization and Its Discontents'.
Phaedo
Then just like Plato starts, you know, in a dialogue called the Lockis, Socrates runs into a couple guys.
The speaker mentions Plato's dialogue 'Laches' as an example of how Platonic dialogues begin.
The Assembly of Women
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But more important is Aristophanes play Assembly Women in which the women take over and establish a communist society.
The speaker mentions Aristophanes' play 'Assemblywomen' as an earlier example of a communist society.
The Dialogues of Plato
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Uh in Plato it shows up in the very first sentence of Plato's Fedrris.
The speaker mentions Plato's dialogue 'Phaedrus' and notes a fundamental question appears in its first sentence.
The Divine Comedy
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And you know my image for this I I started thinking about the inferno as a kind of political text. Oh yeah. And the fact is that you know you get to the ninth circle and Dante's beautiful uh creation invention is that it's ice.
The speaker discusses Dante's 'Inferno' as a political text, mentioning the ninth circle and Dante's invention of ice.
The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud
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There are two Talmuds. The main one is the Babylonian Talmud, two and a half million words.
The speaker mentions the Babylonian Talmud as the main version of the Talmud.
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Two photographers: Robert Capa centennial - Gerda Taro retrospective
I knew this quote before I found this out cuz I read Foust one and two and there's a line in there Mephostophles.
The speaker mentions reading Goethe's 'Faust' (parts one and two) and discusses a quote from Mephistopheles.
War on the West
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Douglas Murray's book, The War on the West, he's got this wonderful passage where he says, 'You can stand in front of a painting and you can look at it and you can say, hm, um this peculiar blue pigment, was that sourced from um some country that was in poverty?'
The speaker mentions Douglas Murray's book 'The War on the West' and quotes a passage from it.