Did Someone Say Totalitarianism?: 5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion
10 best books like Did Someone Say Totalitarianism?: 5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion (Slavoj Žižek): Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think that Can't Be Thunk, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity, Philosophical Hermeneutics
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
| Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| ISBN | 0465026567 |
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
| Author | David Willis McCullough |
| ISBN | 0394540654 |
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
| Author | Stanley Rosen |
| ISBN | 0375720111 |
An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise that all human beings are curious about their existence, Rosen's collection brings...
| Author | Oscar Williams |
| ISBN | 0671496107 |
Immortal Poems
Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished...
| Author | Michael Baur |
| ISBN | 0812696069 |
The most popular musical group of all time, the Beatles also brought serious thought to the bubble gum-scented world of pop and rock music, with adventurous, profound, and sometimes mysterious lyrics that veered from the deliberate absurdity of “I Am the Walrus” to the rosy Rousseau-like fantasy...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0253218284 |
Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name...
| Author | Matthew Dickerson |
| ISBN | 1587431335 |
The allure of fantasy continues to grow with film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. But how should Christians approach modern works of fantasy, especially debated points such as magic and witches?
From Homer to Harry Potter provides the historical...
| Author | Henri Bergson |
| ISBN | 0268018359 |
How companies form? Why do they compete? These conflicts can be avoided? Morality and religion are they only make life possible in society, or do they permit humans to exceed its natural condition and to find a solution to the violence? These are some of the questions at the heart of the Two Sources of Morality...
| Author | David L. Felten |
| ISBN | 0062109367 |
Ministers David Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy, along with an all-star cast of Bible scholars and top church teachers, provide a primer to a church movement that encourages every Christian to “live the questions” instead of “forcing the answers.” Based on the bestselling DVD course of the...
| Author | Hans-Georg Gadamer |
| ISBN | 0520034759 |
Gadamer gets at least three stars for everything, just because he manages to be a serious student of German philosophy, but his sentences are comprehensible on first reading 80 to 90 percent of the time. That makes... one serious student of German philosophy, who is also an original thinker in his/her...
Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
| Author | Christopher Phillips |
Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted-living complexes,...
20th-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age
| Author | Stanley J. Grenz |
| ISBN | 0830815252 |
The Theological Garden of the Twentieth century is a variegated spectacle of blooms - more so perhaps than any previous Christian century. As the century approaches its close, the time is right for surveying, describing, evaluating, and even projecting what seeds might germinate, grow and blossom...
