Books, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Modern

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Douglas R. Hofstadter
Godel, Escher, Bach
by Basic Books (Hardcover)

Michel Foucault
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1995-04-25)

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

John Locke, Richard Howard Cox
Second Treatise of Government (Crofts Classics)
by Harlan Davidson (Paperback)

This essential volume features John Locke's hand-corrected text with an outstanding introduction to Locke's life and role in intellectual history, his principal works, and their purpose. Written by the editor, Richard Cox, the introduction also outlines the course of both treatises of government and analyzes the problems of interpretation. Also included are a list of the principal dates in the life of John Locke as well as a selected bibliography.

Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1990-04-14)

The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.

W. E. B. Du Bois, Monica M. Elbert
The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)
by Modern Library (Paperback) (Release Date: 2000-11-28)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (Oxford World's Classics)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Paperback)

hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning, in the aftermath of "the death of God." His solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence, which he calls "the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be attained." A successful engagement with this profoundly Dionysian idea enables us to choose clearly among the myriad possibilities that existence offers, and thereby to affirm every moment of our lives with others on this "sacred" earth. Grahm Parkes's new translation is more accurate than previous versions, and is the first to retain the musicality of the original, by paying attention to the rhythms and cadences of the German. His introduction examines the work's three most important philosophical ideas and for the first time annotates the abundance of allusions to the Bible ...

Rene Descartes, Donald Cress
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.
by Hackett Pub Co Inc (Paperback)

This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.

Douglas R. Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop
by Basic Books (Paperback)

Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called “I.” The “I” is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction be real—or is our “I” merely a convenient fiction? Does an “I” exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter’s first book-length journey into philosophy since Gödel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, ...

John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
by Broadview Press (Paperback)

Library of Liberal Arts title.

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