Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980
5 best books like Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980 (Richard M. Rorty): Common Sense, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Metaphors We Live By, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0143036254 |
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 0316068225 |
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously?...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415389550 |
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
| Author | George Lakoff |
| ISBN | 0226468011 |
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless...
| Author | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0156027801 |
An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. “No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent energy...
