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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
BL 313 .C28 2008

This book examines the similarities between symbols used in various world myths. An argument for Jung’s collective unconscious.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
B 3313 .A43N54 2011

Nietzsche's landmark book. God is dead. The "Superman." How there is no "real" basis for our morality. Written in allegorical form.

The Stranger
Albert Camus
PQ 2605 .A3734E813

A hard, cold look at the meaning of life.

About Looking
John Berger
N 71 .B398 1991

A wonderful compilation of short essays about the visual.

The End of Art
Donald B. Kuspit
N 6490 .K864 2005

A book that critiques what is commonly referred to as "Post-Modern" art.

Manufacturing Consent
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
P 96 .E25H47 2002

A scathing indictment of the news coverage of all major United States foreign involvements since World War II. Have we been lied to?

Skinny Legs and All
Tom Robbins
POPULAR PS 3568 .O233S55 1990

A strange, funny book that examines the whole ball of wax.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
PR 6019 .O9P64 1991

Find out what you might have been like in the early twentieth century.

Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
POPULAR PS 3572 .O5B7 2006

Vonnegut turned fifty and wrote this rant about society.