Books
Used books are more than passive vessels for written words. The cover art, layout, translation, wear, markings,
editions, and place in time create distinct objects of interest outside of the concepts communicated in their
language.
I usually borrow novels from the library and keep only the books I like (or hate) to use for
reference. If you'd like an exact reference, photo, note, or other use of my book collection, email me. If you see
an opportunity to suggest a book I might enjoy based on this collection, email me.
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
The Mirror and The Lamp
M. H. Abrams
Aeschylus I
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
No Bosses
Michael Albert
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri
The Art of Biblical Poetry
Robert Alter
The Wisdom Books
Robert Alter
Ferocious Reality
Eric Ames
Intention
G. E. M. Anscombe
On Revolution
Hannah Arendt
Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto
Four Plays by Aristophanes
Aristophanes
The Poetics
Aristotle
Toward a Psychology of Art
Rudolf Arnheim
Mimesis
Erich Auerbach
How To Do Things With Words
J. L. Austen
Intuition of the Instant
Gaston Bachelard
On Poetic Imagination and Reverie
Gaston Bachelard
The Poetics of Reverie
Gaston Bachelard
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
Gaston Bachelard
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Alain Badiou
The Fermata
Nicholson Baker
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin
Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Dialogic Imagination
Mikhail Bakhtin
Unspeakable Sentences
Ann Banfield
Chimera
John Barth
The Sot-Weed-Factor
John Barth
The Tidewater Tales
John Barth
A Lover's Discourse
Roland Barthes
Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes
Elements of Semiology
Roland Barthes
Image Music Text
Roland Barthes
Mythologies
Roland Barthes
Sade Fourier Loyola
Roland Barthes
S/Z
Roland Barthes
The Eiffel Tower
Roland Barthes
The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
The Responsibility of Forms
Roland Barthes
The Rustle of Language
Roland Barthes
The Semiotic Challenge
Roland Barthes
Writing Degree Zero
Roland Barthes
The House of Intellect
Jacques Barzun
Patience & Fortitude
Nicholas A. Basbane
Erotism
Georges Bataille
Literature and Evil
Georges Bataille
Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
Franz Kafka
Franz Baumer
The Beatles Anthology
The Beatles
Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett
Waiting For Godot
Samuel Beckett
Jacques Tati
David Bellos
Illuminations
Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art In The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
Walter Benjamin
The Sense of Sight
John Berger
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
The Postmodern Turn
Steven Best, Douglas Kellner
The Poetry and Prose of William Blake
William Blake
The Space of Literature
Maurice Blanchot
Babette's Feast
Karen Blixen, pseud. Isak Dinesen
A Map of Misreading
Harold Bloom
Agon
Harold Bloom
Fallen Angels
Harold Bloom
Genius
Harold Bloom
Jesus and Yahweh - The Names Divine
Harold Bloom
Omens of Millennium
Harold Bloom
Shakespeare: The Invention of The Human
Harold Bloom
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
Harold Bloom
The Anatomy of Influence
Harold Bloom
The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom
The Art of Reading Poetry
Harold Bloom
The Book of J
Harold Bloom
The Shadow of a Great Rock
Harold Bloom
The Western Canon
Harold Bloom
Wallace Stevens - The Poems of Our Climate
Harold Bloom
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
Harold Bloom
Wittgenstein - A Social Theory of Knowledge
David Bloor
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Consolation of Philosphy
Boethius
On Dialogue
David Bohm
Lying
Sissela Bok
Mayhem
Sissela Bok
Secrets
Sissela Bok
The Creators
Daniel J. Boorstin
The Discoverers
Daniel J. Boorstin
The Image
Daniel J. Boorstin
Film Art - An Introduction
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
First Person Plural
Stephen E. Braude
On Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
AJA
Don Breithaupt
Pulling Up The Ladder
Richard. R. Brockhaus
Reading For The Plot
Peter Brooks
Napoleon
Kevin Brownlow
I and Thou
Martin Buber
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
On Histories and Stories
A. S. Byatt
Possession
A. S. Byatt
The Major Works
Lord Byron (Geroge Gordon)
The Clown
Heinrich Böll
Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Italian Folktales
Italo Calvino
The Baron In The Trees
Italo Calvino
Exile and The Kingdom
Albert Camus
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Albert Camus
The Greatest Lies In History
Alexander Canduci
The Civilization of The Middle Ages
Norman F. Cantor
The Eye in the Text
Mary Ann Caws
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote - Book 1
Miguel de Cervantes
Story and Discourse
Seymour Chatman
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales (Garden)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales (Old English)
Geoffrey Chaucer
On The Technique of Acting
Michael Chekhov
A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital
Joseph Choonara
Wine Mom
Lauren Christ
On The Heights of Despair
E. M. Cioran
The Temptation To Exist
E. M. Cioran
The Trouble With Being Born
E. M. Cioran
The Nude
Kenneth Clark
Stairway to Heaven
Richard Cole
Thomas Pynchon & The Dark Passages of History
David Cowart
On Deconstruction
Jonathan Culler
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Marxist Class Theory For A Skeptical World
Raju J. Das
Gothic
Richard Davenport-Hines
Blindness and Insight
Paul de Man
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain De Botton
A Thousand Plateaus
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Anti-Oedipus
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Cinema 2: The Time-Image
Gilles Deleuze
The Names
Don DeLillo
Underworld
Don DeLillo
Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett
Before The Law
Jacques Derrida
Dissemination
Jacques Derrida
Limited Inc
Jacques Derrida
Margins of Philosophy
Jacques Derrida
Memoirs of The Blind
Jacques Derrida
Mémoires for Paul de Man
Jacques Derrida
of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida
Of Spirit
Jacques Derrida
The Gift of Death
Jacques Derrida
The Truth In Painting
Jacques Derrida
Who's Afraid of Philosophy?
Jacques Derrida
Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
Discourse on Method and Meditations
Rene Descartes
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Merleau-Ponty's Ontology
M. C. Dillon
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Aristophanic Comedy
K. J. Dover
Jameson, Althusser, Marx
William C. Dowling
The Italian Comedy
Pierre Louis Duchartre
The Fourth Political Theory
Alexander Dugin
Giorgio Agamben - A Critical Introduction
Leland de la Durantaye
The Rules of Sociological Method
Émile Durkheim
Taking Rights Seriously
Ronald Dworkin
Fictions in Autobiography
Paul John Eakin
A Theory of Semiotics
Umberto Eco
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Kant and The Platypus
Umberto Eco
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Umberto Eco
The Role of The Reader
Umberto Eco
A Kierkegaard Critique
editor
Behind the Glass
editor
Comedy Meaning and Form
editor
Coming of Age in Philosophy
editor
Console Confessions
editor
Documenting the Documentary
editor
Ethical Theory
editor
Film and Authorship
editor
Film Makers On Film Making
editor
Film Theory and Criticism
editor
From Marx to Gramsci
editor
Futurist Manifestos
editor
Game, Play, Literature
editor
Media, Ideology and Hegemony
editor
Medieval English Lyrics
editor
Modern Literary Realism
editor
Movies and Methods Volume 1
editor
Movies and Methods Volume 2
editor
Ours To Master And To Own
editor
Readings In Art History
editor
Rock Chronicles
editor
Star Wars and Philosophy
editor
Textual Strategies
editor
The Brain Is The Screen
editor
The Mabinogi
editor
The Other Bible
editor
The Purloined Poe
editor
The Sign of Three
editor
The Study of Folkore
editor
Theories of Translation
editor
Theory of the Novel
editor
VoiceTextHypertext
editor
Zeno's Paradoxes
editor
The Art of Dramatic Writing
Lajos Egri
Film Form
Sergei Eisenstein
Here, There and Everywhere
Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey
The Theatre of the Absurd
Martin Esslin
Against Method
Paul Feyerabend
The View From Within
Menachem Fisch, Yitzhak Benbaji
Is There a Text in This Class?
Stanley E. Fish
Self-Consuming Artifacts
Stanley E. Fish
Surprised By Sin
Stanley Fish
Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy
Gregory Flaxman
Wittgenstein
Robert J. Fogelin
The Endless Mirror
Jack Folsom & Friends
Discipline & Punish
Michel Foucault
History of Madness
Michel Foucault
Power/Knowledge
Michel Foucault
The Archaeology of Knowledge
Michel Foucault
The Care of The Self
Michel Foucault
The Foucault Reader
Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault
The Order of Things
Michel Foucault
The Magus
John Fowles
The Magus (Revised Edition)
John Fowles
Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
The Art of Being
Erich Fromm
The Art of Loving
Erich Fromm
Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller
Utopia or Oblivion
R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth and Method
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Landscape of History
John Lewis Gaddis
Agapē Agape
William Gaddis
Carpenter's Gothic
William Gaddis
JR
William Gaddis
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini
Tag Gallagher
Fiction and the Figures of Life
William Gass
Finding a Form
William Gass
Middle C
William Gass
On Being Blue
William Gass
The World Within The Word
William Gass
A Commentary on Heidegger's 'Being and Time'
Michael Gelven
The Eternal Present
S. Giedion
On Psychological Prose
Lydia Ginzburg
Music By Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Behavior in Public Places
Erving Goffman
Frame Analysis
Erving Goffman
Interaction Ritual
Erving Goffman
Dead Souls
Nikolay Gogol
The Overcoat
Nicolai V. Gogol
Quiet Testimony
Shari Goldberg
Delilah
Marcus Goodrich
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber and David Wengrow
Prospero's Books
Peter Greenaway
A Short History of Opera
Donald Jay Grout
Soft Logic The Epistemic Role of Aesthetic Criteria
Joseph Grünfeld
The Machinic Unconscious
Félix Guattari
Knowledge and Human Interests
Jùrgen Habermas
Badiou: A Subject to Truth
Peter Hallward
The Age of Bruegel
John Oliver Hand
Tess of The D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
A People's History of the World
Chris Harman
Object-Oriented Ontology
Graham Harman
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
G. W. F. Hegel
Phenomenology of Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel
Philosophy of History
G. W. F. Hegel
The Phenomenology of Mind
G. W. F. Hegel
Basic Writings
Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Nietzsche (Heidegger)
Martin Heidegger
On The Way To Language
Martin Heidegger
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
Martin Heidegger
What Is Called Thinking?
Martin Heidegger
The Old Man and The Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Histories
Herodotus
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
The Mortal No
Frederick J. Hoffman
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter
Le Ton beau de Marot
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Metamagical Themas
Dogulas R. Hofstadter
The Mind's I
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno
Eclipse of Reason
Max Horkheimer
Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan
Andrea Hurst
Origin of Geometry
Edmund Husserl
The Act of Reading
Wolfgang Iser
The Implied Reader
Wolfgang Iser
The Turn of The Screw
Henry James
The Turn of The Screw - Scholar
Henry James
Postmodernism
Fredric Jameson
A Treasury of Bookplates
Fridolf Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Ulysses
James Joyce
Man and His Symbols
Carl G. Jung et al
Man and His Symbols (Pocket)
Carl G. Jung et al
The Portable Jung
Carl G. Jung et al
The Castle
Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka
Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason (Pluhar)
Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena
Immanuel Kant
Encyclopedia of Death
Robert Kastenbaum & Beatrice Kastenbaum
Mastering Audio
Bob Katz
Critique of Religion and Philosophy
Walter Kaufmann
Nietzsche (Kaufman)
Walter Kaufmann
Recording The Beatles
Brian Kehew, Kevin Ryan
Wittgenstein (Kenny)
Anthony Kenny
A Kierkegaard Anthology
Soren Kierkegaard
Either/Or Volume II
Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
Brunelleschi's Dome
Ross King
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Friedrich A. Kittler
Graphic Worlds of Peter Bruegel The Elder
H. Arthur Klein
Screening the Text
T. Jefferson Kline
The Dramatic Portrait
Chris Knight
Wittgenstein On Rules and Private Language
Saul A Kripke
Language: The Unknown
Julia Kristeva
The Kristeva Reader
Julia Kristeva
The Conquest of Bread
Peter Kropotkin
The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Gregg Lambert
Bird By Bird
Anne Lamott
Fanged Noumena
Nick Land
The Thirst for Annihilation
Nick Land
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
Monika M. Langer
The Book of Job A Biography
Mark Larrimore
The Operating System
Eric Laursen
The Art and Science of Portraiture
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Jessica HOffmann Davis
Film: The Creative Process
John Howard Lawson
The State and Revolution
Vladmir Lenin
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions
Mark Lewisohn
Death's End
Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
After Bakhtin
David Lodge
Primal Scenes
Ned Lukacher
Lessons On The Analytic of The Sublime
Jean-François Lyotard
The Prince
Nicolo Machiavelli
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay, LL. D.
The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity
G. B. Madison
Life and Ideas
Errico Malatesta
On Directing Film
David Mamet
A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel
Into the Looking-Glass Wood
Alberto Manguel
Reading Pictures
Alberto Manguel
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm
Alberto Manguel
Death In Venice and Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Eros and Civilization
Herbert Marcuse
From Luther to Popper
Herbert Marcuse
Wittgenstein's Mistress
David Markson
Capital Volume I
Karl Marx
Film, Cinema, Movie
Gerald Mast
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
On Food and Cooking
Harold McGee
Story
Robert McKee
Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Sociological Imagination
C. Wright Mills
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Paradise Lost and Other Poems
John Milton
How To Read Wittgenstein
Ray Monk
The Duty of Genius
Ray Monk
The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
Ross Murfin, Supryia M. Ray
Gödel's Proof
Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
The Theory Toolbox
Jeffrey Nealon, Susan Searles Giroux
Job and The Excess of Evil
Philippe Nemo
Canto General
Pablo Neruda
Exact Imagination, Late Work on Adorno's Aesthetics
Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
One The Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Philosophy of Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will To Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of The Idols & The Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche
Badiou's Being and Event
Christopher Norris
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick
Man and His Images
Georgine Oeri
1984
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Sex, Art, and American Culture
Camille Paglia
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Complete Poems
Dorothy Parker
Not Much Fun
Dorothy Parker
Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images
David Pascoe
Theorem
Pier Paolo Pasolini
All You Need To Know About The Music Business
Donald S. Passman
Chaucer and The Subject of History
Lee Patterson
Ludwig Wittgenstein
David Pears
There Was A Woman
Domino Renee Perez
A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe
Fernando Pessoa
Death at the Parasite Cafe
Stephen Pfohl
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Symposium
Plato
Job
Marvin H. Pope
Popper Selections
Karl Popper
Pleasures and Days
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past Volume I
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past Volume II
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past Volume III
Marcel Proust
Narrative After Deconstruction
Daniel Punday
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
Philosophy of Logic
W. V. Quine
The Complete and Authentic Works of Rabelais
François Rabelais
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
A Theory of Justice Revised
John Rawls
The History of Impressionism
John Rewald
Literature and Film
Robert Richardson
The Conflict of Interpretations
Paul Ricoeur
The Words of Selves
Denise Riley
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Herbs & Things
Jeanne Rose
After Derrida
Nicholas Royle
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
Marquis De Sade
Beginnings
Edward W. Said
The Edward Said Reader
Edward Said
Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
Artificial Mythologies
Craig J. Saper
Essays in Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism and Human Emotions
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Plays and Novels of Peter Handke
June Schlueter
Kabbalah
Gershom Scholem
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Shelley's Poetry and Prose
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Endymion
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion
Dan Simmons
Bruegel
Albert Skira
Slash
Slash with Anthony Bozza
The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
The Theban Plays
Sophocles
The Image Maker
Harold Spencer
Platform Capitalism
Nick Srnicek
Wittgenstein and Derrida
Henry Staten
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
A Reader
George Steiner
The Cinema as Art
Ralph Stephenson, J. R. Debrix
Collected Poetry and Prose
Wallace Stevens
Camera Work
Alfred Stieglitz
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
The Ego and His Own
Max Stirner
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Poetics of Prose
Tzvetan Todorov
Theories of the Symbol
Tzvetan Todorov
Writings of Leon Trotsky 1932-33
Leon Trotsky
Day For Night
François Truffaut
The Book of Dialogue
Lewis Turco
A Hard Day's Write
Steve Turner
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel de Unamuno
Specter of The Monolith
Barry Vacker
The Translator's Invisibility
Lawrence Venuti
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Expelled From Eden
William T. Vollmann
Rising Up and Rising Down
William T. Vollmann
The Atlas
William T. Vollmann
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Webster's New International, 2nd Edition
Webster's
Directing Actors
Judith Weston
The Supranational Corporation
Laura Westra
Process and Reality
Alfred North Whitehead
Edward Weston - Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Doubleday)
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Heritage)
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Modern Library)
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Norton)
Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
Walt Whitman
Specimen Days & Collect
Walt Whitman
The Complete Poems
Walt Whitman
Stoner
John Williams
Culture and Value
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Last Writings Vol. I
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Last Writings, Vol II
Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Grammar
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Remarks on Colour
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Blue and Brown Books
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Word Book
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Zettel
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
The Imperative of Narration
Catharina Wulf
Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi
A People's History of The United States
Howard Zinn
The Parallax View
Slavoj Žižek
The Ticklish Subject
Slavoj Žižek