Re: Humanist library

Emma Pease <er_pease@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<dedc99ab-8b68-49c0-a3e6-eac757a9b56e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave
Smith wrote:
Are you actually building up a library?

Well sort of. To be short in the telling, the chaplain (except he
isn't called a chaplain) of the university where I work has started a
reading room which the various religious (in the broadest sense of the
word) groups at the university have been asked to contribute and he is
looking for some contributions from the humanists (and other
non-theists) on campus. We unfortunately don't have any humanist or
similar groups at this time at the university. I've promised to
donate some works, but, I was also thinking of creating a list of what
should be gotten (or read since many of the classical works can be
checked out in the University library) even if it is not me who gets
them (my budget goes only so far).

Now this is a US university not a British one; however, I think the
British traditions in Humanism are a bit different from the American
traditions (though there is cross-fertization) so I'm looking for some
British input to keep it from being too insular (plus I'm going to be
in Britain in March so any British specific items might be gotten
then). I'm a humanist (at least I think I'm one) but not officially
affiliated with any humanist group nor having done any systematic
reading in humanism (unsystematic reading I have done) so I'm asking
for advice. I should have probably gotten together an initial list
first and asked for some fine tuning on it here.

My apologies for acting like a newbie,

We know you aren't a newbie Emma. Is AV media allowed? if so there is
Jonathon Miller's Brief History of Disbelief tv series. The Beeb's shop
should have a copy, though check the region coding.

Peter

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