Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays

7 best books like Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays (Stanley Cavell): Philosophical Investigations, Idoru, Landscapes: John Berger on Art, The Historical Novel, Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Philosophical Investigations

Author	Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN	0631231277

If you read first Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and then follow it with his Philosophical Investigations, you will treat yourself to perhaps the most fascinating intellectual development in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein has the distinct merit of producing, not one, but two enormously...

Idoru

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0425190455

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Techno-Dystopia: "Idoru" by William Gibson



I think it's very telling - and promising, that this guy who thinks he can predict an apocalyptic future for Earth where 80% of people are killed has had at least the...

Landscapes: John Berger on Art

Author	John Berger
ISBN	1784785873

Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves.

“Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and...

The Historical Novel

Author	György Lukács
ISBN	0850363780

Bastante difícil, mas também bastante iluminador. Os estudos sobre realismo europeu (Thomas Mann e outros) e as diversas considerações sobre Épica e Dramática na historiografia literária são sensacionais. O estudo que Lukács faz sobre o desenvolvimento e o "futuro" do romance histórico...

Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry

Author	Paul Celan
ISBN	0374714215

Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry gathers...

Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

Author	Gershom Scholem
ISBN	1590170326

Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who...

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Author	Theodor W. Adorno
ISBN	0804736332

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...