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Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) 32 reviews
Martin Heidegger
State University of New York Press, 1996
Unprecedented Thinking from an Unprecedented Thinker
+ An Improvement But Not Perfect
+ Catching your hand with your hand
+ Being and Time...
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Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory (by way of Alicein ... 25 reviews
Lawrence Krauss
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
The prehistory of and rise -- and perhaps fall -- of string theory
+ Masterful Explanation of a Complex Subject to General Readers
+ a guide through the pitfalls of science careers...
According to Ed Witten of Princeton's Advanced Institute (former home to BOTH Albert Einstein AND Kurt Godel), modern string theory is a piece of 21st century science that fell early into the 20th century.
According to string apologist Brian Greene, sring theory succeeds where Einstein himself ...
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Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)12 reviews
John Caputo
Fordham University Press, 1996
A very welcome nutshell indeed....
+ Good book
+ A note of caution
....for Derrida is not easy reading. This fine book takes some of his best concepts and explains them in a clear and witty style. Highly recommended starting point for the beginner to deconstructionist thought.
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The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 22 reviews
Isaac Newton
University of California Press, 1999
A time of Science and Philosophy together
+ Beyond the Classroom...NOT Before!
+ brilliant
+ The classic, what did you expect? :-)
+ Excellent translation with helpful apparatus
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The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism8 reviews
Peter Gay
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
An Erudite Synthesis of the Enlightenment
+ Balanced and Erudite
+ Extremely Authoritative and Well-Done
+ Amazon's Waterloo!
+ excellent book!
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics) 25 reviews
Judith Butler
Routledge, 2006
Fascinating Ideas, Infuriating Writing Style
+ Thick, Yet Important
+ Critiquing Gender
Readers who are willing to tolerate labyrinthine sentences and brain-cramping scholarly vocabulary and who already have a working understanding of Freud, Lacan, Foucault, and deconstruction will find in Butler a challenging, highly stimulating theorist of sex, gender, and sexuality.
Readers ...
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)34 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern Library, 2000
Kaufmann Translations with all Footnotes
+ Essential works by important thinker
+ Pleasurable and rich!
+ Oh, Nietzsche
+ almost perfect. all you'll ever need, but maybe not all you'll want.
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A Guided Tour of Five Works by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Death Scene), Allegory of the Cave2 reviews
Christopher Biffle
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2000
Best Plato Textbook is a Superb Teaching Tool
+ Ideal introduction to the study of philosophy
The book is an excellent teaching tool for undergraduate and graduate level Philosophy courses. This text would be the only one I would use at the high school level (and Plato should be taught in GATE and AP type English classes, as he was back in the "good old days" when the goal of academic ...
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Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)13 reviews
Simon Critchley
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Good Essay
+ Good book if you don't want any postmodernism
+ An ambitious attempt at a synthesis...
+ Quite good
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science7 reviews
E. A. Burtt
Dover Publications, 2003
Superb
+ Surf and Turf (Lobsters and Filet Mignon's)
+ Clear, focused and enlightening, even 80+ years after it was written.
+ A Must Read for Philosophy of Science
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Ideas and Opinions44 reviews
Albert Einstein
Bonanza Books, 1988
Disagree at times, but simply genius!
+ fascinating
+ wonderful reading
+ The hobo Philosopher
+ Something to read before you live this world
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The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom2 reviews
Peter Gay
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
One of the most brilliant account of the Enlightenment
+ a classic book on the enlightenment!
The Enlightenment by Peter Gay (2 volumes: The Rise of Modern Paganism and The Science of Freedom) surely ranks among the most brilliant accounts of eighteenth-century philosophy ever written. It is a sweeping account of the intellectual history of the 18th century, form its origins right into the ...
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The World As I See It16 reviews
Albert Einstein
Filiquarian Publishing, LLC., 2006
this is my bible ;-)
+ world as Einstein sees it
+ einstein's essay
+ Nice Collection of Einstein's Thoughts
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Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body ...9 reviews
Rene Descartes
Hackett Publishing Company, 1993
The best introduction to modern philosophy in a reliable and cheap edition!
+ great book, if you already believe in god
+ Had to write a school term paper
+ Classic of Modern Western Philosophy
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory--A Clear Explanation that Anyone Can Understand77 reviews
Albert Einstein
Wings Books, 1988
Worth the Effort - An Excellent Book
+ The worlds greatest mind
+ It's Einstein. what would you expect?
+ Excellent edition of Einstein's Relativity
+ A qualified recommendation
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Emile: Or, On Education5 reviews
Jean-jacques Rousseau, Michael Wu, ...
Basic Books, 1979
The Unread Masterpiece
+ Post-Modern Child Rearing
+ great book, great translation
+ Nature, Education and Democracy
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Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)1 review
Immanuel Kant
Dover Publications, 2003
A foundation stone of modern philosophy
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is considered one of the giants of philosophy, of his age or any other. It is largely this book that provides the foundation of this assessment. Whether one loves Kant or hates him (philosophically, that is), one cannot really ignore him; even when one isn't directly ...
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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts ...14 reviews
Rene Descartes, Karl Ameriks, ...
Cambridge University Press, 1996
Magesterial work which profoundly changed history
+ The roots of the Scientific Method
+ oh descartes
+ Descartes Meditations on the First Philosophiies
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Principia (On the Shoulders of Giants) 4 reviews
Sir Isaac Newton
Running Press, 2005
This is a key masterpiece in the history of Science.
I bought this book not for the purpose of learning Classical Mechanics from it, but for the scientific curiosity of learning how the great Isaac Newton presented his revolutionary scientific ideas to the world. Of course, it is difficult to read. This is an old translation of a book written in ...
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God in the Equation : How Einstein Transformed Religion9 reviews
Corey Powell
Free Press, 2003
Wow! A real mind-opener.
+ a provocative mix of science and philosophy
I can't recall ever reading another book quite like this one. Most of the books about science and religion I've seen fall into one of two categories. They either try to make the case that scientists are secretly religious people, or else they try to argue that science leaves no room for faith. ...
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