Collection of books I've read/plan on reading and worth listing. This will always be in progress until the day I die.
Reading it. This is so far my favorite introduction to hermeneutics. Ezra Pound really gets it; his words feel so fresh, even to this day.
Planned Read. CS Lewis, in the Abolition of Man, encourages an attitude of I-and-Thou towards science, not an "It".
Reading it. Has a nice & short background of the history & basic structures of Yiddish. Need to read more.
Planned Read. Only because It builds up on I and Thou
Reading it. Scruton's work deeply intertwines conservatism with Anglo history, which is... not good. However, it does clarify what traditionalism fundamentally is & the reasons behind it.
Reading it. Elucidates the experience of being and the movement of knowledge. It's good at fulfilling the role of philosophy: to provide clarification of what is. Everyone should check it out; but, as a product of its time and place, it's a work deeply entrenched in Christian terminology; a reading of the Bible is strongly recommended
limbo for unfinished books, basically.
It has good ideas, such as suggesting that mathematical activity ought to be treated as an activity by a person in specific circumstances, therefore viewed as a social activity. But it's wordy, and seems unoriginal too; the introduction alludes to the Notion that it's merely an application of works by structuralist and post-structuralist semiotic philosophers (Saussure, Foucault, Derrida etc.) on mathematics. It seems unnecessary, perhaps even pretentious, to apply linguistic philosophy to mathematics, since mathematical philosophy — what it is and, therefore, how it should be taught — is essentially within the field of mathematics itself, as mathematics itself.
Hegel's work (despite his derisive opinion on math) would perhaps be more approriate to apply in an analysis of mathematical activity and its connection to human experience.