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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWriting and Difference
Jacques Derrida · 407 pages
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter · 777 pages
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.
How to Do Things with Words
J.L. Austin · 166 pages
This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has i
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 188 pages
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Na
Philosophical Essays
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 366 pages
Naming and Necessity
Saul A. Kripke · 172 pages
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
Umberto Eco · 472 pages
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl R. Popper · 480 pages
When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Rene Descartes · 120 pages
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt · 80 pages
Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it, yet we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves--and we lack a conscientious appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory." Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential mora
The Logic of Sense
Gilles Deleuze · 393 pages
Philosophical Hermeneutics
Hans-Georg Gadamer · 243 pages
Published in German during the last 15 years, the 13 essays in this volume provide readers with valuable knowledge of the much discussed theme of hermeneutics today. Gadamer was an early student of Martin Heidegger and has been a lifelong friend and interpreter. These essays are an outgrowth of Gadamer's Truth and Method. They can be understood, however, independently of it. Gadamer's standpoint i
Elements of Semiology
Roland Barthes · 111 pages
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 640 pages
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume · 709 pages
The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher's classic work on human understanding and morals.
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant · 140 pages
The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
Arthur Schopenhauer
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke · 475 pages
Locke's Essay ... (1690) withstood an onslaught by traditional theologians, for rejecting orthodox theology and the concept of innate ideas: as he suggested that God could make matter think. The Essay quickly became one of the most influential books of the eighteenth century, and its contributions to the philosophy of space and time, matter and power were quickly hailed as formative contributions
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard · 158 pages
"This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a founding document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for these perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Søren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and
On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche · 378 pages
The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
Aristotle · 289 pages
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · 526 pages
**Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history** The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and opera