{"product_id":"godel-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid-paperback","title":"Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas R. Hofstadter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, charity, range, wit, beauty, and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event. This is such a work.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eScientific American\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGEB \u003c\/i\u003eis a unique insight into the nature of \"I,\" self, soul, and consciousness, centered on a notion that its youthful author dubbed \"strange loop,\" inspired by the twisty self-referential construction invented by logician Kurt Gödel, whereby a sentence asserts its own unprovability. The book's chapters alternate with Bach-like contrapuntal dialogues between whimsical characters (especially Achilles and the Tortoise), and each dialogue's intricate structure exemplifies the notion being discussed in it, thus creating indirect self-reference (a fact unsuspected by the characters). The book, filled with analogies, wordplay, humor, and mind-twisting prints by M. C. Escher, has inspired generations of bright students to study cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas R. Hofstadter\u003c\/b\u003e is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Metamagical Themas\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFluid Concepts and Creative Analogies\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLe Ton beau de Marot\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e I Am a Strange Loop\u003c\/i\u003e; \"Translator, Trader\"; and most recently, \u003ci\u003e Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e. He translated Alexander Pushkin's novel-in-verse \u003ci\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/i\u003e from Russian verse into English verse, and has also translated books from several other languages into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 824\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 9.2 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53056244416736,"sku":"9780465026562","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/dFyh67o0f59780465026562.webp?v=1781356557","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/godel-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}