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American Political Tradition
$21.57
Biographical portraits of leading American statesmen from Jefferson to F. D. Roosevelt provide insight into the main currents of the nation's political heritage Author: Hofstadter, Richard Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394488806 ISBN-13: 9780394488806..
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
$22.36
Richard Hofstadter's famous Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, his tenth book, earned him the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction (1964). He argues that, by the mid-twentieth century, anti-intellectualism was pervasive but not dominant in American culture, claiming that "the greater part of the public..
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Mo...
$9.73
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging ..
Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of The Music of La...
$15.66
Lost in an art-the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot.” Le ton..
Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of La...
$16.93
Lost in an art-the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot.”Le ton ..
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings ...
$24.37
This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid ..
Social Darwinism in American Thought
$22.51
Describes the influence the theories of evolution had on social philosophy and concludes that man's fate in society is not biologically determined Author: Hofstadter, Richard Publisher: George Braziller Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807600792 ISBN-13: 9780807600795..
University of California Press
The Idea of a Party System (Jefferson Memorial Lec...
$11.16
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..
The Progressive Historians--Turner, Beard, Parring...
$13.34
Daily Shipping-Paper Cover-Pages are crisp-Binding is intact-May contain underlining-Cover has shelf and use wear-Owners stamp (x4) Author: Hofstadter, Richard Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0226348180 ISBN-13: 9780226348186..
The Progressive Movement: 1900-1915 (Touchstone Bo...
$11.10
Describes the 15-year period of crusades against social and political abuses by business and the emergence of muckraking journalism Author: Hofstadter, Richard Publisher: Simon & Schuster Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0671628240 ISBN-13: 9780671628246..