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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

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Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (Mcsweeneys) by Lawrence Weschler

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The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb

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Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages by John H. Van Engen

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The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (Blackwell Companions to Religion) by Graham Ward

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The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

Hi drspkelly:
Thanks for your note - you're absolutely right - having demolished the conceptual idea of reductionism in the first half of the book, Hofstadter ends up being the ultimate reduictionist by its conclusion - as i mentioned in my note, I hadn't finished reviewing the book at the time. I was massively disappointed - a strange loop indeed!

I wrote a review here: http://www.dk.librarything.com/work/3161...

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posted by flatmancrooked at 6:32 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2008

In your review of "I am a strange loop" you say "Such a view is hardly controversial philosophically, but it is elaborated with an astonishing reductionism". Hofstatder spends a lot of pages in the early part of that book comprehensively demolishing the idea of reductionism - I confess I haven't got right to the end yet - does he perpetrate a strange loop of his own then and renege on that criticism?

posted by ElectricRay at 6:25 pm (EST) on Sep 7, 2008

Hi there. The subbing gets less noticeable as the text gets more captivating -- comes to seem like a function of Natura Pictrix. Plus, I'm a finickity editor by nature, and it drives me crazy that most academic presses seemed to have dispensed with subbing.

posted by deliriumslibrarian at 4:42 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2006

We share an unusual cross-section of books, and a passion for Marina Warner. How are you finding Phantasmagoria?

posted by deliriumslibrarian at 2:58 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2006

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