{"id":1896,"date":"2014-05-16T23:14:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T23:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2014-06-23T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:21:45","slug":"western-writers-recommended-in-japanese-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2014\/05\/western-writers-recommended-in-japanese-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Western writers recommended in Japanese collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was in Japan I discovered, in a Japanese book, a very interesting list of Western writers. I hadn’t known about Chesterton in particular and I was delighted to read his work for the first time. Here are those writers, recommended in Nishibe Susumu’s Heroes of Thought<\/em> (\u601d\u60f3\u306e\u82f1\u96c4\u305f\u3061):<\/p>\n

Edmond Burke, S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard, Alexis de Tocqueville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacob Burckhardt, Gustave Le Bon, G.K. Chesterton, Oswald Spengler, Johan Huizinga, Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset, Karl Jaspers, T.S. Eliot, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Hayek, Michael Oakeshott<\/p>\n

Now I recently found another interesting list. Here are the books recommended by Sh\u014dichi Watanabe’s Reading World History Through Classic Texts<\/em> (\u540d\u8457\u3067\u8aad\u3080\u4e16\u754c\u53f2)<\/p>\n

History<\/i> of Herodotus (HTML<\/a>, Gutenberg<\/a>, Kindle<\/a>)
\nHistory<\/i> of Thucydides (Gutenberg<\/a>, Kindle<\/a>)
\nCaesar, De Bello Gallico<\/i> (HTML<\/a>, Kindle<\/a>)
\nTacitus, “Germania<\/a>”
\nNanami Shiono, “The Story of the Roman People<\/a>”
\nChristopher Dawson, “The Making of Europe<\/a>”
\nMachiavelli, “The Prince<\/a>”
\nCarl von Clausewitz, “On War<\/a>”
\nSh\u014dichi Watanabe, “The German General Staff<\/a>” [Yes, Watanabe describes his own book as a classic…]
\nOswald Spengler, “Twilight in the West<\/a>”
\nCecil Chesterton, A History of the United States<\/i> (JPG<\/a>, Gutenberg<\/a>, Kindle<\/a>)
\nBaron Macaulay, “The History of England from the Accession of James II<\/a>”
\nHilaire Belloc, The Jews<\/em> (JPG<\/a>, Kindle<\/a>, used<\/a>)<\/p>\n

edit: I downloaded Macaulay’s book and I am enjoying it quite a lot. I edited this post to provide more reading options for people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in Japan I discovered, in a Japanese book, a very interesting list of Western writers. I hadn’t known about Chesterton in particular and I was delighted to read his work for the first time. Here are those writers, recommended in Nishibe Susumu’s Heroes of Thought (\u601d\u60f3\u306e\u82f1\u96c4\u305f\u3061): Edmond Burke, S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard, Alexis de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}