Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
8 best books like Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life (Gillian Rose): The Periodic Table, Where Reasons End, The Undying, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Measuring Time, Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, On Beauty and Being Just, Language, Truth, and Logic
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0805210415 |
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly...
A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.
The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we...
Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1420926993 |
I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...
| Author | Helon Habila |
| ISBN | 0393052516 |
Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of becoming a soldier who meets beautiful women....
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating...
| Author | Elaine Scarry |
| ISBN | 0691089590 |
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine...
Language, Truth, and Logic
| Author | A.J. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0486200108 |
Classic introduction to objectives & methods of schools of empiricism & linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth &...
