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The books that inspired me...
Which books inspired you to become an academic? That’s the question we’re asking people across the world in our weekly academic inspiration feature. Every Sunday we publish a new account on the LSE Review of Books site (lsereviewofbooks.com) and here are tweets from followers
@LSEReviewBooks wittgenstein's Tractatus. i couldnt get through the first page without being struck by the pure genius of it. still love it
@LSEReviewBooks - A History of Western #Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - a tome of a book but excellent nonetheless
@LSEReviewBooks "Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public" by Sarah E. Igo re-ignited my interest in academia. #phdchat
.@jmm140 @LSEReviewBooks @PJDunleavy I have used Bardach to teach Policy Analysis for the past 6 years and LOVE IT. So practical.
“@LSEReviewBooks: Which books inspired you to continue studying and go into academia?" Not a book but a weekly: @TheEconomist
@LSEReviewBooks Hans Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method: the ripe fruit of a lifetime of rich scholarly reflection #phdchat
@LSEReviewBooks Roger Silverstone's posthumous book Media and Morality inspired me into academia. That, and my classes at @MediaLSE!- @LSEReviewBooks Barthes S/Z in the 70s and Foucault Volunte de savoir in the 80s
@LSEReviewBooks Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and Plato's Republic
@LSEReviewBooks Lorna Weatherill's Consumer Behavior and Material Culture in Britain 1660-1760; Douglas & Isherwood The World of Goods
@LSEReviewBooks well, @OwenJones84 's book "CHAVS" made me socialist, if that helps
@LSEReviewBooks Kaufman's Nietzsche anthologies The Basic Writings of Nietzsche and The Portable Nietzsche, as well as Mill's On Liberty
@LSEReviewBooks Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson. It made me want to visit England and write stories both in the same instant.
@LSEReviewBooks the book that inspired me is Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson's "Why Nations Fail?"
@LSEReviewBooks Book that inspired me was "Three Cups of Tea"; the leadership lessons really made me think of what impact I can really have
@OUPAcademic @lsereviewbooks David Crystal is always inspirational when it comes to linguistics. #Davidcrystal
