Schall's Syllabus

Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., has put together some more book lists in this article for CrisisMagazine.com. I say "more book lists" because Fr. Schall has put together many fine book lists over the years, perhaps most notably in his outstanding book, Another Sort of Learning. Anyhow, his new article includes a list of "five very good books that any college student should start with", as well as lists of books by Chesterton, "five books of initial insight", "five books on the philosophical basics", five books by the great Thomist, Josef Pieper, and five books by Schall himself. Many of these books, I'm happy to say, are published by Ignatius Press, notably works by Chesterton, Pieper, Thomas Howard, Peter Kreeft, and Schall himself.

Comments

[Charles E Flynn]

I keep my copy of Another Sort of Learning facing forward on a shelf, as if it were in a retail display, to remind me not to let the school system interfere with my education. Some book or another has been playing that role for about forty years.

[Joe]

Dietrich von Hildebrand, What Is Philosophy?

IP: PLEASE REPRINT!! It will sell.

[Charles E Flynn]

A Book for Our Age, by Joseph R. Wood, a review of Rev. Schall's The Modern Age.