I am looking for a book that lists the favorite/most influential books of a wide array of writers, thinkers, scholars, philosophers, experts, intellectuals. The book in question has a list of the books that most influenced the legal scholar Richard Posner, a thinker whose intellectual origins I'm curious to investigate.
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I am looking for a book that lists the favorite/most influential books of a wide array of writers, thinkers, scholars, philosophers, experts, intellectuals. The book in question has a list of the books that most influenced the legal scholar Richard Posner, a thinker whose intellectual origins I'm curious to investigate.
Ten years or so ago I purchased book at Goodwill whose entire premise was that it asked a variety of individuals from different walks of life about their favorite or most influential books. One of the individuals queried was Richard Posner, who I believe chose Wittgenstein's book "On Certainty" as one of his favorite along with something by Nietzsche as well I think. Another person queried was David Boies, one of the countries leading lawyers, cofounder of the Boies Schille and Flexner. Does anybody know the name of the book?
Ten years or so ago I purchased book at Goodwill whose entire premise was that it asked a variety of individuals from different walks of life about their favorite or most influential books. One of the individuals queried was Richard Posner, who I believe chose Wittgenstein's book "On Certainty" as one of his favorite along with something by Nietzsche as well I think. Another person queried was David Boies, one of the countries leading lawyers, cofounder of the Boies Schille and Flexner. Does anybody know the name of the book?
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posted by pracowity at 4:55 AM on November 22, 2012