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  Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter

  This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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  I Am a Strange Loop

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter

  Douglas Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach --an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the... (more)
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  Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage)

  by Richard Hofstadter

  "The most comprehensive, succinct, and well-written one-volume treatment of the subject now available." -- Walter Laqueur
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  Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter

  A bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays, on subjects ranging from biology to grammar to artificial intelligence, that are unified by one primary concern: the way people perceive and think.
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  The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett

  Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike fiction of Lem and Princess... (more)
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  Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter

  "Will change your idea of what it is to be creative and even what it is to be human."--(William Poundstone, New York Times Book Review )
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  Le Ton Beau De Marot : In Praise of the Music of Language

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Cle?ment Marot

  Do Lost in the 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 Clement Marot. "Le ton beau de Marot" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot", but to a French ear it suggest "Le tom beau de... (more)