Earliest inflluences

I'll be revisiting my earliest intellectual influences in the months (years?) ahead:

• Marriage and Morals, Bertrand Russell
• Number, the Language of Science, Tobias Dantzig
• Love in the Western World and The Devil's Share, Denis de Rougemont
• Life Against Death and Love's Body, Norman O. Brown
• The Reenchantment of the World, Morris Berman (and his recent, dazzling The Twilight of American Culture)

And, of course, I'll be "rethinking Walden." A challenging agenda.