On Sale: Apr 5, 1996
Page Count: 880 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN-13: 9780465045662

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The eclectic and classic collection of essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

“Enormously ambitious and hugely interesting.” –New York Times Book Review

Hofstadter’s collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

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Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; I Am a Strange Loop; “Translator, Trader”; and most recently, Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery.  He translated Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin from Russian verse into English verse, and has also translated books from several other languages into English.

“Enormously ambitious and hugely interesting.”
New York Times Book Review
“The closest thing imaginable to taking a voyage through a mind.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“‘Delight’ is the operational word.”
Chicago Tribune
“Douglas Hofstadter is a scientist with the inspired madness of a poet.”
New Republic
“This wonderful collection tackles virtually every area of fascination and controversy in science today, from mathematics and quantum mechanics through evolutionary theory to artificial intelligence, the nature of human thought and rational choice, and ties them together by showing how understanding in one area enhances understanding in others.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University
“The incredible Dr. Hofstadter is back, in golden-braid form, with a collection of wide-ranging essays that swarm with extraordinary ideas, brilliant fables, deep philosophical questions and Carrollian word play.”
Martin Gardner
“Hofstadter is rapidly becoming the Hamlet of our times: whatever he says is both exact and double-edged, reassuring but provocative, poetic and self-challenging. His scariest insights and most agonizing intellectual probings are graced, like Hamlet’s, with humor, affection, and a kind of mad musical charm.”
Leonard Bernstein

Douglas R Hofstadter

About the Author

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including I Am a Strange Loop and Surfaces and Essences, and has contributed to ten more. He lives in Bloomington.

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