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In this marvelously original book, Dan Hofstadter shows how a great treasure of forgotten personal writing--diaries, memoirs, and letters written by George Sand, Anatole France, and Marcel Proust, among others--bears on the erotic lives of the writers, and how the fine French tradition of conducting... More

Weaving the intrigue of an elusive romance with the vivid and haunting evocation of a legendary metropolis, the author brilliantly reveals Naples in this sun-drenched and lyrical book.A portrait of the sun-drenched volcanic city from an American who has lost his heart to the place and to a beguiling... More

This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they belie... More

Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism.... More

Hofstadter--who won a Pulitzer for his 1979 book, "Gdel, Escher, Bach"--blends a surprising array of disciplines and styles in his continuing rumination on the nature of consciousness.What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise ... More

This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. In the author's words, "The emergence of legitimate party opposition and of a theory of po... More

Since 1977, Hofstadter, the author of Godel, Escher, Bach, and his students have been developing computer models of discovery, creation, and analogical thought. What has emerged is a sophisticated and unorthodox vision of the mind in which perception, at an abstract level, is the key: perception of ... More

Hofstadter's bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays has been reissued to coincide with the paperback release of Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. "Reading Metamagical Themas is perhaps the closest thing imaginable to taking a voyage through a mind".--San Francisco Chronicle. 124 ... More