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Learn more about the foundational ideas for Spark Hunter and All Things Have Standing® with these books and websites.
Unless otherwise noted, the books below are available online from Apostle Islands Booksellers, a bookshop with a focus on nature, cultures and the environment, located on Lake Superior at the gateway to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness Area. Apostle Islands Booksellers is happy to offer you a 10% discount on any of the books on this list (certain restrictions apply).
- The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics, Silvia Benso (2000) (paperback or ebook)
- The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker (1973) – Pulitzer Prize 1974
- The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life, Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, & Tom Pyszczynski (2015) (see British version from Penguin in hardcover or paperback and ebook and audio book)
- Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, Shannon Vallor (2016)
- See ISSEP (International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology) and Morbid Anatomy for readings and webinars on the legacy of Pulitzer Prize winner Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory
- Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital, James K. Rowe (2024) (paperback or ebook)
- The Hub for Important Ideas https://www.thehubforimportantideas.com/ for podcasts that challenge conventional thinking about serious issues of our time
- Lex Fridman with Sheldon Solomon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKyNxfyWbo for an exploration of the fundamental psychological drivers of human behavior
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
- Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, James Bridle (2022)
- Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology, Megan Craig (2010)
- The Cry for Myth, Rollo May (1991)
- Being and Time, Martin Heidegger (1927)
- The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, Martin Heidegger (1977, nominal essay originally published 1954)
- For the time being, Annie Dillard (1999)
- Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, William Barrett (1958)
- An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity, Wes Jackson & Robert Jensen (2022)
- “Democracy Devouring Itself: The Rise of the Incompetent Citizen and the Appeal of Right Wing Populism,” Shawn Rosenberg in Psychology of Political and Everyday Extremisms. Domenico Uhng Hur & José Manuel Sabucedo (Eds.), forthcoming.
- What We Are: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future, Lonnie Aarssen (2022, originally published c. 2014)
- Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis, Eve Darian-Smith (2022)
- Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (2017)
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber & David Wengrow (2021)
- Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet, Katharine Zywert & Stephen Quilley (Eds) (2020) (ebook)
- Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, John Gray (2007)
- A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control, Wendell Wallach (2015)
- A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman (1990)
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Eric Hoffer (1951)
- Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain, Michael Gazzaniga (2011)