📚 31 Books mentioned in "Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117" of Lex Fridman Podcast

you said you picked up becker's book and you know it felt like it was onto something that's the same thing i felt when i picked up becker's book

Lex Fridman mentions picking up Becker's book, likely 'The Denial of Death'.

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i like faulkner absalom absalom is is a fine book

Sheldon Solomon mentions liking Faulkner's book.

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and so there's a guy named amin malouf a lebanese guy who writes in french who in the 1990s i think wrote a book called in the name of identity violence and the need to belong

Sheldon Solomon mentions Amin Maalouf's book about identity and tribalism.

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and it took me 40 years to read being in time

Sheldon Solomon mentions struggling to read this philosophical work.

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um there's another book the birth and death of meaning uh which is framed um in from an evolutionary perspective

Sheldon Solomon mentions this as another book by Ernest Becker, framed from an evolutionary perspective.

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that would basically be like stephen pinker's blank slate

Sheldon Solomon refers to Stephen Pinker's book in the context of assumptions about human nature.

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thomas soul uh wrote a book about uh recent book on um charter schools

Lex Fridman mentions Thomas Sowell's recent book about charter schools.

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i i'm enamored with a novel by a woman named carson mccullers written in 1953 called clock without hands

Sheldon Solomon recommends this novel and describes its themes.

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so i'm with jared diamond you know in the book collapse where he points out studying um the collapse of major civilizations that it often happens right after things appear to never have been better

Sheldon Solomon mentions Jared Diamond's book about the collapse of civilizations.

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another possibility is uh nicholas humphrey a british dude who wrote a book about i think it's called regaining consciousness

Sheldon Solomon mentions Nicholas Humphrey's book about the origins of consciousness.

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so it's david sloane wilson wrote a book called darwin's cathedral and he said religion has nothing to do with death

Sheldon Solomon mentions David Sloan Wilson's book about religion and evolution.

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it's eric fromm uh in a book called escape from freedom he's like look you

Sheldon Solomon mentions Erich Fromm's book in the context of existential isolation and consciousness.

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i don't know how you pulled this off but he had one more after he died called escape from evil

Sheldon Solomon mentions this book by Ernest Becker, published after his death.

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he wrote a book about globalism

Sheldon Solomon refers to John Gray's book about globalism.

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i i even uh i i guess read parts of finnegan's wake no way

Sheldon Solomon mentions reading parts of this book.

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and so there's a guy named amin malouf a lebanese guy who writes in french who in the 1990s i think wrote a book called in the name of identity violence and the need to belong

Sheldon Solomon mentions Amin Maalouf's book about identity and tribalism.

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you know the thomas pickerty guy who writes about capital and just makes the point that return on investment will always be greater than wages

Sheldon Solomon refers to Thomas Piketty's book about capital and return on investment.

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so and and melville does the same thing in moby dick where he he thinks about will there ever come a time where we run out of whales

Sheldon Solomon mentions Melville's novel in the context of resource limits.

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and he starts in his second treatise on government 1690 or so

Sheldon Solomon mentions John Locke's work and its starting point regarding the state of nature.

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and now let me leave you with some words from vladimir nabokov that sheldon uses in his book warm at the core the cradle rocks above and abyss and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness

Lex Fridman quotes Vladimir Nabokov, noting that Sheldon uses this quote in his book 'The Worm at the Core'. The quote is from 'Speak, Memory'.

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i i like his uh short stories the dead

Sheldon Solomon mentions liking James Joyce's short stories, specifically 'The Dead'.

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but there's another lunatic oswald spangler who wrote a book called decline of the west

Sheldon Solomon mentions Oswald Spengler's book and a quote from Goethe within it.

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let me say as a side note that ernest becker's book denial of death had a big impact on my thinking about human cognition consciousness and the deep ocean currents of our mind that are behind the surface behaviors we observe

Lex Fridman mentions Ernest Becker's book and its impact on his thinking.

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it's the great gatsby

Sheldon Solomon mentions the novel in the context of feeling lonely even when surrounded by people.

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what garnered my attention when i was a young punk was just a single line in an essay by a scottish guy it was alexander smith in in a book called dreamthwarp i think it's written in the 1860s

Sheldon Solomon mentions finding a line in an essay by Alexander Smith in this book.

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and how i mentioned to you off camera that i've been reading uh the the rise and fall of the third reich

Lex Fridman mentions reading this book and its depiction of anger and hatred arising from economic pain.

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but the dawkins in the selfish gene um is very thoughtful

Sheldon Solomon mentions Richard Dawkins' book in the context of evolutionary thinking and consciousness.

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the following is a conversation with sheldon solomon a social psychologist a philosopher co-developer of terror management theory and co-author of the warm at the core on the role of death and life

The introduction mentions Sheldon Solomon as a co-author of this book.

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and actually hannah arendt in the 1950s said the same thing in her book about totalitarianism when she said that you know that economics has reached the point where most money is made not by actually making stuff

Sheldon Solomon mentions Hannah Arendt's book about totalitarianism and its predictions.

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look it took me 40 years to read ulysses i could not get past the first five pages

Sheldon Solomon mentions struggling to read this novel.

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and evidently uh thoreau sold like 75 copies of walden

Sheldon Solomon mentions Thoreau's book and its poor sales upon release.

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