Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
10 best books like Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (Susanne K. Langer): Einstein's Dreams, The Psychology of Time Travel, 2666, I Am America (And So Can You!), America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Vita Nuova, Wittgenstein's Mistress, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In...
The Psychology of Time Travel
| Author | Kate Mascarenhas |
| ISBN | 1683319443 |
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project—and future of time travel—in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from...
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto...
I Am America (And So Can You!)
| Author | Stephen Colbert |
| ISBN | 0446580503 |
Congratulations--just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic.
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions...
America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't
| Author | Stephen Colbert |
| ISBN | 0446583979 |
Book nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.
But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return...
| Author | George M. Marsden |
| ISBN | 0465030106 |
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country’s traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George...
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0691017840 |
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. Examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, it considers...
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0192839357 |
Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...
| Author | David Markson |
| ISBN | 1564782115 |
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0253211123 |
"Caputo's book is riveting.... A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis.... There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work." --Edith Wyschogrod
"No one interested...
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0805202412 |
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...
