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The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays 47 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1991
Definitely worth a try
+ Years ago
+ Not an easy but a worthwhile read
+ amazing
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Thought and Language - Revised Edition 6 reviews
Lev S. Vygotsky
The MIT Press, 1986
A landmark...
+ My opinion
+ Change your life
+ Fantastic
+ The behavior of cognition
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The Idea of Nature (Galaxy Books) 2 reviews
Robin George Collingwood
Oxford University Press, USA, 1960
A Great Book from a Great Philosopher
I recommend this book to anyone who has ever tried to think about "nature". This book shows how the concept of nature has changed in Western Civilization, and how we can best think about this abstract concept today.
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature14 reviews
Erich Auerbach
Princeton University Press, 2003
Starting point
+ the two streams of narrative . . .
+ Productive Time Spent While in Exile
+ Truth *is* in the Whole
+ defining work of western literary criticism
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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature2 reviews
M. H. Abrams
W. W. Norton & Company, 1973
Cracking The Romantic Code
+ English and German Romantic Criticism on a high order.
M.H. Abrams takes his title from Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and though he shines his lamp on that work briefly, for the most part this is a critical study which focuses on the key German and English romantics (philosophers and poets)and certain formal attributes they all shared -- namely a penchant ...
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series)109 reviews
Joseph Campbell
New World Library, 2008
Very Helpful
+ A journey blending modern psychology with comparative mythology
+ The Hero with a Thousand Faces
+ A must read for everyone
+ A Book with a capital "B."
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought1 review
Erich Heller
Harvest Books, 1975
The Plight of the West
Nihilism flickers with its black fire throught out the pages of this book and godlessness attends it as Erich Heller attempts to provide a spiritual physiognomy for the age.
Goethe is the major figure of Heller's meditations and Nietzsche who tries to forge a new soul in a world where Goethe's ...
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt23 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1992
Camus eclipses nihilism and brings news of a new age!
+ A work of genuis
+ BETTER TO DIE ON ONE'S FEET THAN TO LIVE ON ONE'S KNEES...
+ The Rebel meets every expectation set out by The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus
+ An inquiry into the ethics of rebellion
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation7 reviews
E.H. Gombrich
Phaidon Press, 2004
No one does it better
+ It will teach you understanding for the visual language
+ Art and Illusion review by artist/filmmaker
+ Fantastic book
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Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.9 reviews
Owen Barfield
Wesleyan, 1988
Can God Be Found in Time & Flesh & Blood?
+ A door to perception
+ excellent book
+ In brief
+ A Brave Plunge into Deep Waters
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A History of Western Philosophy3 reviews
Bertrand Russell
simon shuster, 2007
A Little Dated though Brilliant
+ Essential Reading; Excellent Overview
+ Interesting
It is heartening to see Russell's overview of Western thought in a new reprint. The project itself at the time and even in present time; is extremely ambitious. However, Russell manages the task with professionalism and the text is written in a style that can be read by most individuals interested ...
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The Rhetoric of Fiction3 reviews
Wayne Booth
University Of Chicago Press, 1983
expand your appreciation of fiction
+ Every book expresses a set of values
+ Lit Crit Text
This thoughtful, probing exploration of how fiction is narrated will make you a better reader and a better writer.
The title's reference to "rhetoric of fiction" makes this book sound obscure and academic, but I found Booth's inquiry into fictional "rhetoric"--that is, the techniques used by ...
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea7 reviews
Arthur O. Lovejoy
Harvard University Press, 1976
Tired of post-modernist trendier-than-thou claptrap? This one's for you.
+ Perspective Altering - I'm still recovering from a bad education
+ The Great Chain of Being.
+ Useful but dated and potentially limiting.
+ A pioneering work that created a new field of study
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The Birth of Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics)29 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
The Op. 1 of Frederic Niezsche !
+ Great value
+ Just some logistics...
+ Nietzsche's Best, in my opinion
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions118 reviews
Thomas S. Kuhn
University Of Chicago Press, 1996
Not Just for Those Interested in Science
+ Scientific Revolutions
+ Review of Kuhn
+ Exciting, elevated, and encouraging (to would be researchers)
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The Discovery of the Mind2 reviews
Bruno Snell
Dover Publications, 1982
Dated but good general reading on the influence of Greek thought
+ A brilliant but quaint series of essays on Greek literature.
To paraphrase an observation Whitehead made over and over, something wonderful happened between the 8th and 5th century BCE in Greece. Why the circumstances came together in such a way as to produce what we glibly know as "classical Greece" no one may adequately explain, but Snell's book makes ...
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The Gnostic Gospels183 reviews
Elaine Pagels
Vintage, 1989
Gnostic gospels
+ The Gnostic Gospels
+ Gnostics Can't Be Easily Written Off
The product arrived quickly and the quality was excellent. I had the subject on hard back, but listening to the subject on CD impacted the delivery and allowed others to join in and listen. Looking for other products like it...on CD
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Galaxy Books)2 reviews
Meyer H. Abrams
Oxford University Press, USA, 1971
The Birth of the Visionary Poet
+ Romantic Connaseur
Our way of looking at art in the year 2000 is steeped in the Romantic mentality. The idea of the true poet as lone inspired genius, starving in a garret, creating to express his (and it generally was 'his' in those days) inner turmoil or vision is so ingrained that there almost seems no other ...
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Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (Wesleyan Paperback)6 reviews
Owen Barfield
Wesleyan, 1984
A profound contemplation on poetry, language, & meaning
+ Wonderful, and not at all outdated!
+ Perennial and Profound
+ A thoughtful book, but a product of its time...
+ Forgotten Classic..70 years ahead of its Time!
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Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel4 reviews
Jacob Bronowski, Bruce Mazlish
Harper Perennial, 1962
An Entertaining Tour of Western Thought
+ Readable and makes sense to a common person.
+ Masterful Tributary Synthesis
+ Great Analysis of the Fusion of Science & The Humanities
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