William James & Wendell Berry

Hey all, so here's what Lori and I gave out last week.

"The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James - the book in general is an edited series of lectures that James gave in Scotland in 1901-02. I included the first lecture. James was a psychologist and philosopher (and brother of Henry James), who was interested in the psychology of religion and mysticism. He also said he that he was only able to understand Hegel under the influence of nitrous oxide.

"The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture" by Wendell Berry (1977) - I included three chapters early in the book where Berry looks at the problems of our culture as problems of agriculture. Berry was born and still lives in Kentucky where he farms and writes--fiction and nonfiction.

And I'm down to read Big Red Son.