Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
7 best books like Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (Marjorie Perloff): Ghost World, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, Science and the Modern World, The Theory of the Novel, Baudelaire
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560974273 |
Ghost World has become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after its original release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical...
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
| Author | Angela Carter |
| ISBN | 0140235191 |
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals,...
| Author | Christa Wolf |
| ISBN | 0374534292 |
The stunning final novel from East Germany’s most acclaimed writer
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two...
| Author | Norman Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0199247595 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein remains one of the most powerful influences on contemporary philosophy, yet he shunned publicity and was an extremely private man. His friend Norman Malcolm (himself an eminent philosopher) wrote this remarkably vivid personal memoir of Wittgenstein--first published in...
| Author | Alfred North Whitehead |
| ISBN | 0684836394 |
Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand...
| Author | György Lukács |
| ISBN | 0262620278 |
Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is...
| Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| ISBN | 0811201899 |
Sartre offers the reader a peering and somewhat brutal examination of Baudelaire. Less a critical reading of the author's work than a Freudian biography adorned by existential themes--billowing with pessimistic grace. Baudelaire's dandyism, his fomenting of self-ridicule and humiliation,...
