Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to...... more

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Ga... more

Poetry, Language, Thought collects Martin Heidegger’s pivotal writings on art, its role in human lif... more

Hofstadter’s first book-length journey into philosophy since Gödel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly...... more

. Hofstadter, this book will appeal students, scholars, and professionals in the fields of mathematics, computer science, logic and...... more

Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the...... more

, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as...... more

This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often... more

EXPANDED AND REVISED. Did you ever experience something that you felt couldn’t have happened simply ... more

longstanding interest in Renaissance and Baroque lore--Dan Hofstadter explains this apparent paradox and limns this historic moment...... more

translation by Douglas Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English. In Translator, Trader, Douglas Hofstadter reflects on...... more

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. S... more

. Hofstadter, this book will appeal students, scholars, and professionals in the fields of mathematics, computer science, logic and...... more

Sparked by reading Jim Falen’s beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter...... more

Hofstadter’s collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and...... more

Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about...... more

. Hofstadter approaches the topic historically, showing how events from various historical epochs expose the degree of freedom in...... more

development, and right-wing ideologues claim reluctance to intervene in the "natural" workings of the economy. Richard Hofstadter...... more

This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and t... more

." Professor Hofstadter’s analysis of the idea of party and the development of legitimate opposition offers fresh insights into the...... more

Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the ... more

the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 Edited by Richard Hofstadter Volume III From Reconstruction to the Present Day...... more

反智，不只是風潮，而是美國深層文化的一部分。 兩屆普立茲獎得主--理查.霍夫士達特 從美國建國歷程、宗教傳統、政治體制、與商業精神中，挖掘美國的「反智」根源。 「這是美國史學史上一部傳世的... more

反智，不只是風潮，而是美國深層文化的一部分。 兩屆普立茲獎得主--理查.霍夫士達特 從美國建國歷程、宗教傳統、政治體制、與商業精神中，挖掘美國的「反智」根源。 「這是美國史學史上一部傳世的... more

本書是霍夫施塔特最早的著作之一，寫作時約30歲上下，他自承是出於「年輕人的視角」，也「偏向左派的觀點」。這也難怪，因為寫作之際是反映1930年代美國經濟大蕭條後的社會氛圍，當然是對主流思想與當政團體的... more

Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of social movements in the perception of intellect in American life...... more

Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that transform right before your eye... more

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent histor... more

of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter s first book-length journey into...... more

of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter s first book-length journey into...... more

A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world... more

Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is ... more

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter s classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral...... more

Neapolitan woman. In Falling Palace Dan Hofstadter brilliantly reveals Naples, from the dilapidated architectural beauty to the...... more