I’m looking for the popular science books that are adequate from the Marxist point of view or don’t go in that field at all. Like, “Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind” is recommended everywhere, but I think someone here on lemmygrad wrote that it has questionable moments. I read in English and Russian. Any kind of science will do. Thanks!
Though really, really old Caudwell’s Crisis in Physics is interesting 1930s physics from a ML lens, also touches on a lot of philosophical concepts. If you’re into philosophy, Marxism or poetry you may find him interesting. JB Foster’s Marx’s Ecology and his book Critique on Intelligent Design are Marxist approaches to ecology and biology respectively. Anything by Stephen Jay Gould as well for the interplay of sociology and biology, I personally like his The Mismeasure of Man (get the latest edition) since it serves as one route to take down of The Bell Curve and similar lines of thought.
Damasio is interesting for pop neuro sci but he’s a standard lib, I’d highly recommend his Descartes’ Error and Searching for Spinoza though, I absolutely would not recommend in good faith Self Comes to Mind since it’s poorly edited. Oliver Sacks comes off as a neuro version of PT Barnum with some of his patients at times, so I can’t really recommend him. If you do read him, his later works are more humanizing than his earlier ones, starting around Musicophillia iirc.
Thank you for the answer!