Philosophy Book Club?
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Philosophy Book Club?
- Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
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Re: Philosophy Book Club?
-creating a subforum for each book rather than just a forum category
-buying a copy of the winning book for whoever nominated it
-having some other forum contests and giving a copy of the winning book as a prize
-lots of off-site advertising of the book club
-moving the book of the month forum to the top of the index
-limit nominations to relatively new released non-fiction books (maybe like the past 2 years)
-asking people during registration who do not regularly read non-fiction books to not join the forum
Any other ideas are greatly appreciated.
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Re: Philosophy Book Club?
Scott, the fact that it doesnt seem to work very well should tell you something, and it is not that you are not trying hard enough. If we try to "force" people to do what actually we ourselves, and of course I mean out of selfish reasons, would like them to do, and I think this is not only philosophically but also empirically, historically and psychologically a fact, it will always end in a disappointment one or the other way.
That is why I personally do never advertise on any books and even rarely on philosphers: people are different, the books they 'need' are different. Let us put the energy we have to a more worthwile use than swimming upstream.
Edit: I just saw the discussion on "Beyond Good and Evil" and I felt the need to qualify my post: I did not mean that threads about books are 'wrong' or 'uninteresting', above all not those about 'classical' or 'canonical' books of the history of philosophy. What I mean is that they are just threads like any other thread in the forum and that it just makes no sense to shove them into peoples faces, i.e. declare them more important or more interesting than others, as this is purely subjective in my opinion.
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