Episode 30: The Greatest Books Ever Written
Very Bad Wizards
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Culture of Honor by Nizbit and Cohen
Hofstadter, Burke and Miller are the two books that have most influenced him. Nizbit and Cohen were one of the first people to study the phenomenon of honor from a very experimental perspective. Humiliation by William Ian Miller works on the subject of Icelandic cultures but his main research is Icelandic law. No private sense of self-respect can be independent of others unless it's publicly confirmed.
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