Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2020-07-07
Books mentioned on #1503 - Josh Barnett
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Josh Barnett recommended Being and Time by Martin Heidegger, and discussed The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger, The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, and No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Joe Rogan recommended The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Book of Five Rings
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi is a classic treatise on strategy, tactics, and philosophy written by a legendary seventeenth-century Japanese swordsman.
Discussed“cuz I got into the book of five rings again”
Where to get it
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The Hagakure
The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and D.
Recommended“man when I read his [ __ ] all I fell in love with samurai philosophy a long time ago from what Neto bay and the hagakure”
Where to get it
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Storm of Steel
Discussed“you know reading a storm of seal by Ernst humor and you're reading this guy's take on being in World War one”
Where to get it
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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a monumental historical exposé documenting the brutal realities of the Soviet forced labor camp system through personal testimony and archival research.
Discussed“I mean when he talks about whatever he's talking about word you know he's talking about Gulag Archipelago or anything he's talking about it from a place of profound understanding”
Where to get it
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a gripping modern Western thriller following a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and a relentless, calculating killer named Anton Chigurh.
Discussed“and it just made me think of Cormac McCarthy in No Country for Old Men you know uh you know you can you can change your name”
Where to get it
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Being and Time
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger is a monumental and notoriously dense work of twentieth-century philosophy that investigates the fundamental nature of human existence, or Dasein, through the lens of time and mortality.
Recommended“and I'm also a big fan of Heidegger so like being towards death knowing that this is inescapable”
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