Intercollegiate Studies Institute's "50 Worst Books of the 20th Century" (Non-fiction)
Earlier this year, the Modern Library published a list styled The Hundred Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century. A list of significant books can make a compelling statement about how we are to understand an age. In judging the quality of a book, one necessarily judges the perception and the profundity which the book displays, as well as the character of the book’s influence.
Yet many were dissatisfied with the several "Best" lists published in the past year, finding them biased, too contemporary, or simply careless. So the Intercollegiate Review (IR) set out to assemble its own critically serious roster of the Best—and the Worst—Books of the Century. To assist us in this task, we relied on the advice of a group of exceptional academics from a variety of disciplines.
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8.?The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspectiveby Harvey Gallagher Cox
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Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studiesby Stanley Eugene Fish
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The Function of the Orgasm: Discovery of the Orgone (Discovery of the Orgone, Vol 1)by Wilhelm Reich
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The Fate of the Earth and the Abolition: And, the Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)by Jonathan Schell
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