The Responsibility of Intellectuals
10 best books like The Responsibility of Intellectuals (Noam Chomsky): The War of the End of the World, The Mandarins, Consciousness Explained, No-No Boy, Radicalized, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Code of the Woosters, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, Patriotism
The War of the End of the World
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| ISBN | 0571139612 |
Practical Eschatology
At precisely the time that Fyodor Dostoevsky was writing of the Grand Inquisitor and his confrontation with a Jesus returned to the world (1879-80), the events he was fictionalising were playing themselves out in the scrublands of the Brazilian State of Bahia. In fact,...
| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
| ISBN | 0007203942 |
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler -- and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects...
| Author | Daniel C. Dennett |
| ISBN | 0316180661 |
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review
Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional,...
| Author | John Okada |
| ISBN | 0295955252 |
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
In...
| Author | Cory Doctorow |
| ISBN | 1789541093 |
Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near—all too near—future.
'Unauthorized Bread' is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman's perilously illegal...
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140441123 |
This is a review of Prometheus Bound. Reviews of other plays in the same book are found elsewhere (see below)
Peter Paul Rubens
Prometheus, discoursing on his gifts to mankind:
... At first
Mindless, I gave them mind and reason. - What I say
Is not censure...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0393339815 |
No one weaves a plot like Wodehouse. Also, if you have a cow creamer, guard it with your life.
The 2012 re-read:
Aunt Dahlia dispatches Bertie to Totleigh Towers to purlorn a silver cow creamer coveted by his uncle Tom from Sir Watkyn Basset. Unfortunately, Bertie has his work cut out for...
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0141036192 |
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
“Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker
The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the bloodless Wall Street centrism of the...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0811213129 |
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.
By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
| Author | Rollo May |
| ISBN | 0285621378 |
Loneliness, boredom, emptiness: These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration--a basic and inborn sense of value. Man's Search for Himself is an illuminating view...
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
| Author | Jeffrey D. Sachs |
| ISBN | 0231184042 |
In this passionate and powerful book--part manifesto, part plan of action--the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach...
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 0679740996 |
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment...
4★
“No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.”
Harry’s dying. Gangrene. He’s not happy about it, but he’s resigned to it...
Quantum Soup: Fortune Cookies in Crisis
| Author | Chungliang Al Huang |
| ISBN | 1848190549 |
i love this book. particularly for his sense of humour. it makes a good bedtime story. i first discovered it at a bed and breakfast on kaua`i. it brings back good memories!
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Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution
| Author | Helen Fouche Gaines |
| ISBN | 0486200973 |
I've had the misfortune, I now realise, of having to discuss crypto with someone whose only exposure to the field was this book. It's not that it was a bad book in its day—it's clearly well-researched and intelligently written. It's that it was published in 1939. A decade is a lifetime in cryptography;...
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
| Author | Pierre-Simon Laplace |
| ISBN | 0486288757 |
A classic of science, this famous essay by "the Newton of France" introduces lay readers to the concepts and uses of probability theory. It is of especial interest today as an application of mathematical techniques to problems in social and biological sciences.
Generally recognized as the founder...
این داستان منحصراً زاییدهی خیال است. نه یک روایت از سرگذشت واقعی چند شخص واقعی، و از آن میان گویندهی داستان. خواننده آن را به صورت سرگذشت یک دوره از زندگانی...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0544212479 |
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet . . . That’s the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, and there’s a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet....
Elements Of Moral Philosophy: And The Right Thing To Do
| Author | James Rachels |
| ISBN | 0077107462 |
James Rachels, the distinguished American moral philosopher, was born in Columbus, Georgia, and graduated from nearby Mercer University in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studying under Professors W. D. Falk and E. M. Adams. He taught at the...
| Author | Wilhelm Reich |
| ISBN | 0374504016 |
Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what...
Representations of the Intellectual
| Author | Edward W. Said |
| ISBN | 0679761276 |
Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of...
Yoga-1 (Bireyin Doğuşu) (The Yoga-Book Vol.1)
Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker...
Defending the Undefendable
| Author | Walter Block |
| ISBN | 0930073053 |
In the first couple of sections, Sexual & Medical, he presents some good arguments in favor of less government interference & that's not surprising, given his Libertarian stance that he warns about in the introduction. His arguments are somewhat thin, but not too bad.
I found that...
| Author | José Saramago |
| ISBN | 0156028794 |
José Saramago is a master at pacing. Readers unfamiliar with the work of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner would do well to begin with The Cave, a novel of ideas, shaded with suspense. Spare and pensive, The Cave follows the fortunes of an aging potter, Cipriano Algor, beginning with his weekly delivery...
Memories Look at Me: A Memoir
| Author | Tomas Tranströmer |
| ISBN | 0811220184 |
Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak, Memories Look at Me is Tomas Tranströmer’s lyrical autobiography about growing up in Sweden. His story opens with a streak of light, a comet that becomes a brilliant metaphor for “my life” as he tries to penetrate...
Better than Perfect: Free Yourself from Impossible Standards So You Can Live a Happier, Healthier Life
| Author | Elizabeth Lombardo |
| ISBN | 1580055494 |
In society today, perfectionism is a widely distributed personality trait that is becoming more frequently and more intensely expressed. Every day, people focus negatively on different aspects of their lives, feeling unhappy with their coworkers, their spouses, their bodies, or their children’s...
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Buy and Live as They Do
| Author | Clotaire Rapaille |
| ISBN | 0767920562 |
Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes.
In The Culture Code, internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to...
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
| Author | Étienne de La Boétie |
| ISBN | 1551640880 |
Proust takes me many time but I try to read other books. I wanted to re reread Montaigne but I begin by it. Short text but genius.
"À vrai dire, il est bien inutile de se demander si la liberté est naturelle, puisqu’on ne peut tenir aucun être en servitude sans lui faire tort : il n’y a rien au...
