STEPS TO AN ECOLOGY OF MIND | GREGORY BATESON | 1972

Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson’s short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry, and epistemology. (Wikipedia)

LA NAUSÉE | JEAN-PAUL SARTRE | 1938

The novel takes place in ‘Bouville’ a town similar to Le Havre, and it concerns a dejected historian, who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea. (Wikipedia)

WAKING, DREAMING, BEING | EVAN THOMPSON | 2014

This is a ground-breaking philosophical exploration of consciousness and the self as they occur across the states of waking, falling asleep, dreaming, lucid dreaming, deep dreamless sleep, out-of-body experiences and dying. The first-person methodologies of Indian and Asian contemplative traditions such as Yoga, Vedānta and Buddhism generate data that go beyond the reach of the standard scientific approach taken by Western neuroscience and psychology. (University of Notre Dame)

L’ENTRAIDE, L’AUTRE LOI DE LA JUNGLE | P. SERVIGNE, G. CHAPELLE | 2017

Two young french academics step beyond their theories and look at post-modern societal solutions. One of them mutual aid (entraide) being one of the forgotten basic principles of Darwinism principles of evolution. Together they evoke how much the worse/harder the situation become the more life is encompassing this notion of mutual aid/solidarity/togetherness.