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Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief and his book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. He is a critic of political correctness and postmodernism. He has become a controversial figure for his stances against feminism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism.
Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief and his book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. He is a critic of political correctness and postmodernism. He has become a controversial figure for his stances against feminism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism.
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Contents
1.The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz
2.The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
3.Panzram byThomas E. Gaddis
4.Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5.Man’s Search for Meaning byViktor E. Frankl
6.The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
7.Factfulness by Hans Rosling
8.The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9.Words with Power by Northrop Frye
10.The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
11.The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
12.Our Culture, What’s Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple
13.Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp
14.The Neuropsychology of Anxiety by Jeffrey A. Gray
15.Mephistopheles by Jeffrey Burton Russell
16.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
17.The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
18.The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis
19.The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
20.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
21.Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
22.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
23.The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
24.The Great Code by Northrop Frye
25.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
26.East of Eden by John Steinbeck
27.Two Essays on Analytical Psychology by Carl Jung
28.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
29.War And Peace Leo Tolstoy
30.Modern Man In Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
31.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
32.Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky
33.The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
34.The Symbolic Life by Carl Jung
35.The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
36.The Emotional Brain by Joseph Ledoux
37.On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
38.Tolstoy by Henri Troyat
39.The Moral Judgment of the Child by Jean Piaget
40.The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
41.Answer to Job by Carl Jung
42.How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjørn Lomborg
43.The Great Escape by Angus Deaton
44.The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
45.Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
46.Shamanism by Mircea Eliade
47.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
48.The Mystery of Capital by Hernando De Soto
49.Animal Farm by George Orwell
50.1984 by George Orwell
51.The Red and the Black by Stendhal
52.Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
53.Island by Aldous Huxley
54.The World’s Religions by Huston Smith
55.The House of God by Samuel Shem
56.The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary
57.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
58.The New Executive Brain by Elkhonon Goldberg
59.The Forge and the Crucible by Mircea Eliade
60.The Sacred and The Profane by Mircea Eliade
61.The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 by Theodore M. Porter
62.Genius by Eysenck
63.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
64.The Discovery of the Unconscious by Henri F. Ellenberger
65.Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
66.Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
67.The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
68.The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
69.Systemantics by John Gall
70.Myth and Reality by Mircea Eliade
71.The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
72.Progress by Johan Norberg
73.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
74.The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung
75.Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
76.Myths Dreams and Mysteries by Mircea Eliade
77.Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
78.Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
79.The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
80.The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception by James J. Gibson
81.Psychology and Religion by Carl Jung
82.Brain Architecture by Larry W. Swanson
83.An Outline of Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud
84.A Way of Being by Carl Rogers
85.The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
86.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
87.Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
88.A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1 by Mircea Eliade
89.The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
90.Psychology and Alchemy by Carl Jung
91.Little Science, Big Science…and Beyond by Derek J.De Solla Price
92.I, Claudius by Robert Graves
93.Existence by Rollo May
94.Aion by Carl Jung
95.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
96.An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks
97.A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
98.The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
99.Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget
100.Lord of the Flies by William Golding
101.Fratricides by Nikos Kazantzakis
102.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
103.On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
104.A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3 by Mircea Eliade
105.Symbols of Transformation by Carl Jung
106.Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
107.Earth in Human Hands by David Grinspoon
108.Mysterium Coniunctionis by Carl Jung
109.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
110.A History Of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2 By Mircea Eliade
111.The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Conclusion:
Jordan Peterson is a controversial figure, but he is also a man of great knowledge and wisdom. His book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a must-read for anyone who wants to live a better life.
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