Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-04
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 105
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Garrison Davis discussed Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby, Of Ghosts and Spirites, Walking by Night, and of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdomes. One Booke, Written by Lewes Lavaterus of Tigurine, and Translated Into English by R.H. (i.e. Robert Harrison]. by Ludwig Lavater, Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night by Ludwig Lavater, Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, Voices from the Spirit World by Isaac Post, and Ghosts of Futures Past by Molly McGarry. Also mentioned: On the Edge by Dennis Tourish and others, Cultish by Amanda Montell, Capital by Karl Marx, What is to be Done? by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, and In Defense of Common Sense by Lyndon H. LaRouche.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits
Discussed“Emma Wilby describes in her book, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, how into the early modern period, many cunning folk, basically low-level magicians and conjurers, had ghosts, fairies, and animal spirit companions”
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Of Ghosts and Spirites, Walking by Night, and of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdomes. One Booke, Written by Lewes Lavaterus of Tigurine, and Translated Into English by R.H. (i.e. Robert Harrison].
Discussed“A Swiss theologian named Lewig Laviter attempted to solve this cosmological problem in his 1569 book Despectress. I just picked up my copy a few weeks ago and I've been going through it and it's a lot of fun.”
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Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night
Discussed“A Swiss theologian named Lewig Laviter attempted to solve this cosmological problem in his 1569 book Despectress. I just picked up my copy a few weeks ago and I've been going through it and it's a lot of fun.”
Where to get it
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Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell
Discussed“In 1785, he published a book titled Heaven and Hell based on his experiences of the afterlife. According to Swedenberg, once humans on Earth pass on to the spiritual world, they enter a intermediate realm in between heaven and hell”
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Heaven and Hell
Discussed“In 1785, he published a book titled Heaven and Hell based on his experiences of the afterlife. According to Swedenberg, once humans on Earth pass on to the spiritual world, they enter a intermediate realm in between heaven and hell”
Where to get it
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Voices from the Spirit World
Discussed“In 1852, the medium Isaac Post published a collection of messages he supposedly channeled from such people as Voltater, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous figures who urged the living to push for radical social change. The book entitled Voices from the Spirit World included a passage claiming that the ghost of George Washington became an abolitionist after death.”
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Ghosts of Futures Past
Discussed“According to ghosts of futures past, spiritualism and cultural politics of 19th century America by Molly McGarry, Thomas Watson, famed assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, experimented with the telephone as an aid to spiritual communication.”
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On the Edge
On the Edge: Political Cults Left and Right by Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth is an analytical exploration of how political cults operate and recruit members across the ideological spectrum.
Discussed“Recently I picked up On the Edge, political cults left and right by Dennis Turish and Tim Walford. And uh, as I was going through it and going through all the different examples and stuff. It really gave me a clearer sense of how political cults operate.”
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Cultish
Cultish by Amanda Montell is a nonfiction book examining the linguistic tactics and psychological mechanisms used by modern cults, high-control groups, and pervasive cultural movements.
Discussed“Have you ever read the book uh cultish? So I classify my engagement with literature in two broad camps. Books I've read and books I've skimmed. That's a book I've skimmed.”
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Capital
Capital by Karl Marx is a foundational critique of political economy that examines the mechanics of capitalist production, commodity fetishism, and the systemic exploitation of labor.
Discussed“It's 600 pages long. It's it's Yeah. I mean do you even read capital? Like come on. All all all 25 volumes. I have no shade of capital. I mean it's a good book.”
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What is to be Done?
Discussed“Drawing from Lenin's what is to be done, Larouche believes that a select intellectual group which I mean he was clearly a part of these professional revolutionaries held a pivotal role in transforming society”
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In Defense of Common Sense
Discussed“So, Larouche decides to write a book called In Defense of Common Sense. It's a mix of obscure geometric illustrations, a passionate defense of Platonism, a tribute to the 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler and some heavy denunciations of philosophers like Kant”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“In the presentation, the head scientist of Alexa AI gave an example of a kid asking Alexa for his grandma, who recently died of CO, to read him the Wizard of Oz.”
“As an intellectual, he loved his books, including Marx's capital, Rosa Luxembourg's The Accumulation of Capital, and Hegel's Logic and his intellectualism naturally fed into his elitism.”
“As an intellectual, he loved his books, including Marx's capital, Rosa Luxembourg's The Accumulation of Capital, and Hegel's Logic and his intellectualism naturally fed into his elitism.”
“As an intellectual, he loved his books, including Marx's capital, Rosa Luxembourg's The Accumulation of Capital, and Hegel's Logic and his intellectualism naturally fed into his elitism.”