Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary ...12 reviews Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, ... Wiley-Blackwell, 1991 A fine book + A sea change in philosophy + The key text. + Nice Version of a Contemporary Classic             Action in Perception (Representation and Mind)5 reviews Alva Noe The MIT Press, 2005 A new paradigm + J.J. Gibson Reincarnated + Perception as skillful act + A book with information known for thousands of years, but not by everybody. + A new movement in perception             Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)75 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Classics, 2003 What was on Zarathustra's mind on those mountains? + FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: "...PUTTING HIS FINGER ON BAD ARTS OF INTERPRETATION" (start here with Nietzsche) + Way Beyond Good & Evil Beyond Good and Evil clarifies much of what is left in the air in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and hinted at in the Gay Science. It helps to be familiar with TSZ, or at least the Gay Science coming into reading this text, given the subtlety of the allusions to his former writings and concepts, and the ...             Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia19 reviews Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari University of Minnesota Press, 1983 Original, brilliant... insightful, but distorted in perspective. + guide to an anti-fascist life + Amazing Stories + Oh god + Good Book             Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)104 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007 An incredibly misunderstood genius!! + "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."-Nietzsche + Strenght from the ashes + brilliant and creative mind + Algora pub./T. Wayne trans. edition is best             The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition23 reviews Charles Darwin Signet Classics, 2003 There is no substitute for reading the master himself + Darwin Study of Evolution + Turning point in scientific thought + Simple Idea Yet Powerful             Writing and Difference4 reviews Jacques Derrida University Of Chicago Press, 1980 Derrida all over the place + Cryptic and Wonderful + Reading Derrida.... + the difference that makes the difference             The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature5 reviews Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault New Press, 2006 Unusual clarity + "libidinous power..." + Highly recommended, and a welcome contribution to library philosophy shelves. + What a find! + Foucault's Chomp             The Blue and Brown Books7 reviews Ludwig Wittgenstein Harper Perennial, 1942 Resplendent, explosive... + The blue book + Essential for understanding the P.I. + Precursor to the Investigations + Changed my life             A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia22 reviews Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, ... University of Minnesota Press, 1987 You blew it off in grad school, now go back and read it.... + Worth one's time + a magnum opus of the late 20th century + more art than philosophy             Theory of Colours7 reviews Johann Wolfgang Goethe The MIT Press, 1970 Theory of Colours + An Existential View of Colour and Sight + Solid, partial translation + Happy Colours             Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason19 reviews Michel Foucault Vintage, 1988 A Great Choice for the First-Time Foucault Reader + "Imagination is not madness." + Defining madness is a subjective thing... + exorcised mental clutter and fantasy that deluded my mind!             Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)39 reviews Ludwig Wittgenstein Routledge, 2001 'The world is all that is the case' + Not for the average reader but thorough, if not at times tedious, in acomplishing its task... + ow, my brain...awesome. + Worth a PHD for the writer.             Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Bänden. Herausgegeben von G. Colli und M. Montinari.3 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio Colli, ... Dtv, 1999 wonderful deal + exceptional + oh my, serious students of nietzsche should invest in this! This really is a fantastic opportunity to obtain Nietzsche's complete works. The hardback version from the publisher is well over $100 per volume. If you sign up for the Amazon Visa card, you can knock off another $30 if you use it to make this your first purchase. If you qualify for the A9 ...             Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)47 reviews G. W. F. Hegel Oxford University Press, USA, 1979 Kant go all the way + Solid Version + good book good translation + This Book Is a Theory of Creation and Applies Plato's Negative             Godel's Proof33 reviews Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman NYU Press, 2001 how i understand Godel + A fine essay introducing the basic idea + Godel for people such as we (who are familiar with a little Theory of Numbrets) + A Simple Presentation of a Complex Topic + Godel's incompleteness theorems explained in non-technical language             Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid244 reviews Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books, 1999 Computer Science + An Incredible Intellectual Romp + Literate, Facinating, Readable + My favourite book - ever!             Of Grammatology26 reviews Jacques Derrida The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 Push through it + The problematization of writing + Fantastic When I first tried to tackle this book I was a first year undergrad philosophy and logic student - I declared Derrida my arche-enemy. Three years later I am devoted to Derrida. I eventually managed to push down the frustration (and at times, the blind rage) I felt at reading his stuff and took ...             The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and ...             Nietzsche And Philosophy (European Perspectives)11 reviews Gilles Deleuze Columbia University Press, 2006 The best book about Nietzsche + This one started it all + one of the greatest books i have ever read + Fine for people who know Nietzsche or philosophy