The Socrates Express

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING

GENERAL READING ON PHILOSOPHY

Craig, Edward. Philosophy: A Brief Insight. New York: Sterling, 2002.

Curnow, Trevor. Ancient Philosophy and Everyday Life. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.

———. Wisdom: A History. London: Reaktion, 2015.

Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and the Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926.

Hadot, Pierre. Philosophy as a Way of Life. Translated by Michael Chase. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1995.

———. What Is Ancient Philosophy? Translated by Michael Chase. London: Belknap, 2002.

Jaspers, Karl. The Great Philosophers: The Foundations. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.

Lehrer, Keith, B. Jeannie Lum, Beverly A. Slichta, and Nicholas D. Smith, eds. Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom. New York: Springer, 1996.

Macfie, Alexander, ed. Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy: A Reader. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Magee, Bryan. Confessions of a Philosopher: A Journey Through Western Philosophy. New York: Random House, 1997.

———. The Great Philosophers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

———. Ultimate Questions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Miller, James. Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Monk, Ray, and Frederic Raphael, eds. The Great Philosophers: From Socrates to Turing. London: Orion, 2001.

Needleman, Jacob. The Heart of Philosophy. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Nozick, Robert. The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Rodgers, Nigel, and Mel Thompson. Philosophers Behaving Badly. London: Peter Owen, 2005.

Solomon, Robert. The Joy of Philosophy: Thinking Thin versus the Passionate Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Solomon, Robert, and Kathleen Higgins. A Short History of Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Sternberg, Robert, and Jennifer Jordan, eds. A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Van Norden, Bryan, and Jay Garfield. Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Walker, Michelle. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Warburton, Nigel. Philosophy: The Basics. London: Routledge, 1992.

GENERAL READING ON TRAIN TRAVEL

Nye, David. American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.

Quinzio, Jeri. Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining. New York: Rowan & Littlefield, 2014.

Revill, George. Railway. London: Reaktion, 2012.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 1977.

Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America. New York: Public Affairs, 2012.

Zoellner, Tom. Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World—from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief. New York: Penguin, 2014.

1: HOW TO GET OUT OF BED LIKE MARCUS AURELIUS

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Translated by Gregory Hays. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

Briley, Anthony. Marcus Aurelius: A Biography. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966.

Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Translated by Justin O’Brien. New York: Vintage International, 1991.

Hadot, Pierre. The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Translated by Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Kellogg, Michael. The Roman Search for Wisdom. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2014.

McLynn, Frank. Marcus Aurelius: A Life. New York: Da Capo, 2008.

Needleman, Jacob, ed. The Essential Marcus Aurelius. Translated by John Piazza. New York: Penguin, 2008.

2: HOW TO WONDER LIKE SOCRATES

Gower, Barry, and Michael Stokes, eds. Socratic Questions: New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and Its Significance. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Johnson, Paul. Socrates: A Man for Our Times. New York: Penguin, 2011.

Kreeft, Peter. Philosophy 101 by Socrates: An Introduction to Philosophy via Plato’s Apology. San Francisco: Ignatius, 2002.

May, Hope. On Socrates. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.

Morrison, Donald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Plato. Plato: Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997.

Taylor, C. C. Socrates: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

3: HOW TO WALK LIKE ROUSSEAU

Amato, Joseph. On Foot: A History of Walking. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

Damrosch, Leo. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Delaney, James. Starting with Rousseau. New York: Continuum, 2009.

Gros, Frederic. A Philosophy of Walking. Translated by John Howe. New York: Verso, 2015.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions. Ware, Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth, 1996.

———. Emile: or On Education. New York: Basic Books, 1979.

———. Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated by Peter France. New York: Penguin, 1979.

———. The Social Contract and Discourses. London: Everyman’s Library, 1973.

Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: A History of Walking. New York: Penguin, 2000.

Wokler, Robert. Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford, 1995.

4: HOW TO SEE LIKE THOREAU

Cameron, Sharon. Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau’s Journal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Casey, Edward. The World at a Glance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Cramer, Jeffrey S., ed. The Quotable Thoreau. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Goto, Shoji. The Philosophy of Emerson and Thoreau: Orientals Meet Occidentals. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2007.

Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1965.

Leddy, Thomas. The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Broadview Press, 2012.

Petrulionis, Sandra. Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012.

Richardson, Robert. Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Sullivan, Robert. The Thoreau You Don’t Know. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.

Tauber, Alfred. Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Thoreau, Henry David. A Year in Thoreau’s Journal: 1851. New York: Penguin, 1993.

———. Letters to a Spiritual Seeker. Edited by Bradley Dean. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

———. The Major Essays of Henry David Thoreau. Ipswich, MA: Whitston, 2000.

———. Selected Journals of Henry David Thoreau. New York: Signet, 1967.

———. Walden and Civil Disobedience. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2012.

———. Walking. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.

———. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2001.

Versluis, Arthur. American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Young. J. Z. Philosophy and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

5: HOW TO LISTEN LIKE SCHOPENHAUER

Cartwright, David. Schopenhauer: A Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Janaway, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Lewis, Peter. Arthur Schopenhauer. London: Reaktion, 2012.

Magee, Bryan. The Philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Odell, S. On Schopenhauer. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2001.

Safranski, Rudiger. Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy. Translated by Ewald Osers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Schirmacher, Wolfgang. The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World as Will and Representation and Other Writings. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Essays and Aphorisms. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin, 1970.

———. The World as Will and Representation. Vol. 1. Translated by Judith Norman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Sim, Stuart. A Philosophy of Pessimism. London: Reaktion, 2015.

Yalom, Irvin. The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Young, Julian. Schopenhauer. New York: Routledge, 2005.

6: HOW TO ENJOY LIKE EPICURUS

Cooper, David. A Philosophy of Gardens. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Crespo, Hiram. Tending the Epicurean Garden. Washington, D.C.: Humanist Press, 2014.

Epicurus. The Art of Happiness. Translated by George Strodach. New York: Penguin, 2012.

———. The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia. Translated by Brad Inwood and L. P. Gerson. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.

———. The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments. Translated by Eugene O’Connor. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993.

Klein, Daniel. Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life. New York: Penguin, 2012.

Long, A. A. From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Lucretius. The Way Things Are. Translated by Rolfe Humphries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.

Nussbaum, Martha. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

O’Keefe, Tim. Epicureanism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Seneca. Letters from a Stoic. Translated by Robin Campbell. New York: Penguin, 1969.

Slattery, Luke. Reclaiming Epicurus: Ancient Wisdom that Could Save the World. New York: Penguin eBooks, 2012.

Warren, James. The Companion to Epicureanism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

7: HOW TO PAY ATTENTION LIKE SIMONE WEIL

Gray, Francine. Simone Weil. New York: Viking Penguin, 2001.

Hellman, John. Simone Weil: An Introduction to Her Thought. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1982.

Mole, Christopher, Declan Smithies, and Wayne Wu, eds. Attention: Philosophical and Psychological Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Murdoch, Iris. The Sovereignty of Good. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Pétrement, Simone. Simone Weil: A Life. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Pantheon, 1976.

Seneca. On the Shortness of Life. Translated by C. Costa. New York: Penguin, 2004.

von der Ruhr, Mario. Simone Weil: An Apprenticeship in Attention. New York: Continuum, 2006.

Weil, Simone. An Anthology. New York: Grove, 1986.

———. Formative Writings, 1929–1941. Translated and edited by Dorothy McFarland and Wilhelmina Van Ness. New York: Routledge, 2010.

———. Gravity and Grace. Translated by Arthur Wills. London: Octagon Books, 1979.

———. Late Philosophical Writings. Translated by Eric Springsted and Lawrence Schmidt. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2015.

———. Waiting for God. Translated by Emma Craufurd. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

8: HOW TO FIGHT LIKE GANDHI

Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Easwaran, Eknath, trans. The Bhagavad Gita. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1985.

Fischer, Louis. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. New York: Penguin, 1954.

Gandhi, Manuben. Last Glimpses of Bapu. Translated by Moli Jain. Agra, India: Shiva Lal Agarwala, 1962.

Gandhi, Mohandas. The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi. Translated by Mahadev Desai. Floyd, VA: Sublime, 2014.

———. Mahatma Gandhi & The Railways. Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan, 2002.

———. The Penguin Gandhi Reader. New York: Penguin, 1996.

———. The Story of My Experiments with Truth. New York: Dover, 1983.

Gandhi, Rajmohan. Why Gandhi Still Matters: An Appraisal of the Mahatma’s Legacy. New Delhi: Aleph, 2017.

Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi Before India. New York: Knopf, 2014.

Homer, Jack, ed. The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings. New York: Grove, 1994.

Juergensmeyer, Mark. Gandhi’s Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

9: HOW TO BE KIND LIKE CONFUCIUS

Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. New York: Anchor, 2007.

Confucius. The Analects. Translated by D. C. Lau. New York: Penguin, 1979.

Dan, Yu. Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World. Translated by Esther Tyldesley. New York: Atria, 2006.

Gardner, Daniel. Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Goldin, Paul. Confucianism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Ivanhoe, Philip, and Bryan Van Norden, eds. Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2005.

Mencius. Mencius. Translated by D. C. Lau. New York: Penguin, 1970.

Ni, Peimin. On Confucius. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002.

Phillips, Adam, and Barbara Taylor. On Kindness. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Puett, Michael, and Christine Gross-Loh. The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Schuman, Michael. Confucius and the World He Created. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Tuan, Yi-fu. Human Goodness. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

Van Norden, Bryan. Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2011.

10: HOW TO APPRECIATE THE SMALL THINGS LIKE SEI SHŌNAGON

Hume, Nancy, ed. Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader. Albany: State University of New York, 1995.

Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. New York: Vintage, 2003.

Richie, Donald. A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2007.

Saito, Yuriko. Everyday Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Shōnagon, Sei. The Pillow Book. Translated by Meredith McKinney. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Tanizaki, Junichiro. In Praise of Shadows. Translated by Thomas Harper. New York: Vintage, 2001.

Tuan, Yi-fu. Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture. Washington, D.C.: Island, 1993.

11: HOW TO HAVE NO REGRETS LIKE NIETZSCHE

Cate, Curtis. Friedrich Nietzsche. New York: Overlook, 2005.

Danto, Arthur. Nietzsche as Philosopher. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Haase, Ullrich. Starting with Nietzsche. New York: Continuum, 2008.

Magnus, Bernd. Nietzsche’s Existential Imperative. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Basic Writings of Nietzsche. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House, 2000.

———. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin, 1979.

———. The Gay Science. trans. Thomas Common. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2008.

———. Human, All Too Human. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

———. A Nietzsche Reader. trans. R.J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin, 1977.

———. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin, 1961.

Reginster, Bernard. The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Safranski, Rudiger. Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. Translated by Shelley Frisch. New York: Norton, 2003.

Solomon, Robert. Living with Nietzsche: What the Great “Immoralist” Has to Teach Us. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Solomon, Robert, and Kathleen Higgins. What Nietzsche Really Said. New York: Schocken, 2000.

Steinhart, Eric. On Nietzsche. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.

Zweig, Stefan. Nietzsche. Translated by Will Stone. London: Hesperus, 2013.

12: HOW TO COPE LIKE EPICTETUS

Graver, Margaret. Stoicism and Emotion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Long, A. A. Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

———. Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Epictetus. The Discourses. London: Orion, 1995.

———. The Handbook. Translated by Nicholas White. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.

Irvine, William. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Robertson, Donald. Stoicism and the Art of Happiness. London: Hachette, 2013.

13: HOW TO GROW OLD LIKE BEAUVOIR

Baars, Jan. Aging and the Art of Living. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

Beauvoir, Simone de. All Said and Done. Translated by Patrick O’Brian. New York: Putnam, 1974.

———. The Coming of Age. Translated by Patrick O’Brian. New York: Norton, 1996.

———. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Open Road, 1948.

———. Force of Circumstance. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

———. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.

———. A Very Easy Death. Translated by Patrick O’Brian. New York: Pantheon, 1965.

Booth, Wayne, ed. The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Cicero, Marcus. How to Grow Old: Wisdom for the Second Half of Life. Translated by Philip Freeman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Cox, Gary. How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.

Nussbaum, Martha, and Saul Levmore. Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism Is a Humanism. Translated by Carol Macomber. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Stoller, Silvia, ed. Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, and Time. Boston: De Gruyter, 2014.

Tidd, Ursula. Simone de Beauvoir. London: Reaktion, 2009.

Wartenberg, Thomas. Existentialism: A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2008.

14: HOW TO DIE LIKE MONTAIGNE

Bakewell, Sarah. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. New York: Other Press, 2010.

Beauvoir, Simone de. All Men Are Mortal. Translated by Leonard Friedman. New York: Norton, 1992.

Frame, Donald. Montaigne: A Biography. New York: North Point Press, 1984.

Frampton, Saul. When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing with Me? Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life. New York: Vintage, 2012.

Friedrich, Hugo. Montaigne. Translated by Dawn Eng. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Malpas, Jeff, and Robert Solomon, eds. Death and Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Montaigne, Michel. The Complete Essays of Montaigne. Translated by Donald Frame. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958.

Zweig, Stefan. Montaigne. Translated by Will Stone. London: Pushkin, 2015.