Request for Generative Anthropology reading list

I can't disagree with any of that. At some point Gans's books should be cracked. For thinking through absolutism and reaction in particular, I would recommend The End of Culture and Science and Faith.

Andrew Bartlett's Mad Scientist, Impossible Human covers a lot of important ground as well.

I edited a collection of essays called The Originally Hypothesis: A Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry, which has some very good essays from central GA thinkers.

Yes, we are all academics, and assumed we were addressing other academics, so the question of "marketing" never entered into it until very recently. It turns out that the academics, by and large, didn't care, but it seems others do.

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The emergence of the alt-right and neo-reaction led to sites like that and, I'd guess, more inquirers like you, and therefore created a new niche for GA. It's fortunate that around the same time I concluded that the political crisis could not be resolved within liberal democracy--and almost immediately saw many others thinking the same thing. So I could also stop being frustrated by the obtuseness of academics in the humanities, because GA would anyway be in better hands elsewhere. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.

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I know you've been trying to get ahold of Gans's books, so I thought you might be interested in a very cheap copy of his Signs of Paradox I just came across on Abebooks:

[https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30081933226&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26an%3Deric%2Bgans&cm\_sp=snippet-\_-srp1-\_-title13](https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30081933226&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26an%3Deric%2Bgans&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title13)

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Better hurry!

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