Ishmael Philosophy
Have you read “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn, how about “My Ishmael” and “The Story of B”?
What are your thoughts about his philosophies?
I haven’t read those books by him, but have read “Beyond Civilization” by Quinn, which was quite good, and is really an extension of the philosophies he explored in the earlier books.
I like his thoughts on ‘tribes’ within civilizations, particularly when it comes to talking about the meaninglessness of money within a working tribal structure.
The book reminded me of Christopher Alexander’s “A timeless way of building”, which is centered on architecture, but talks far wider than that (what does ‘happy’ really mean?…), and has a similar digestible “page at a time” format.
The Embodied Mind and Returning to Nature
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My Ishmael $8.75 Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is a bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement. Now Quinn presents an extraordinary sequel, a companion novel so startlingly original that even Ishmael’s most faithful readers will not predict its outcome….When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with “an earnest desire to save the world,” he does not… |
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Skinny Legs and All $6.00 An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nationsâ¦It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but itâs the axis around which spins Tom Robbinsâs gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative new novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder dis… |
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure $4.63 Futurist Daniel Quinn (Ishmael) dares to imagine a new approach to saving the world that involves deconstructing civilization. Quinn asks the radical yet fundamental questions about humanity such as, Why does civilization grow food, lock it up, and then make people earn money to buy it back? Why not progress “beyond civilization” and abandon the hierarchical lifestyles that cause many of our… |
