The Life of the Mind
10 best books like The Life of the Mind (Hannah Arendt): The Moviegoer, Philosophical Investigations, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, The Liar, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Landscapes: John Berger on Art, The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82, Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, On Liberty and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0375701966 |
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he...
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...
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 1573225142 |
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list-it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works...
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.
Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a...
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 1844670511 |
Perhaps the great book of the oncoming Trump era. Adorno's depth of observation, critical analysis, and disgust at late-capitalist culture reads as a cry from the least false oracles of Delphi. His intellect burns ultra-bright, spouts of water on a magnesium fire. Aphorism as razor to drain the infection,...
| 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...
| Author | Fredric Jameson |
| ISBN | 1859841821 |
Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the...
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0312425708 |
The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their choosing. Attended by thousands, Foucault's lectures were seminal events in the world of French letters, and his ideas...
| 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...
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN | 0521379172 |
Mill's tract, published in 1859, remains one of the most important and influential of all writings on "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be exercised by society over the individual" (5). Mill attempts to define those limits as narrowly as possible, and leave as much...
| 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,...
The Book of General Ignorance
| Author | John Lloyd |
| ISBN | 0307394913 |
Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller.
Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science,...
