NYRB home · About NYRB · Authors · Forthcoming · Special offers · Reading group guides · Blog · RSS · Shopping cart

Science & Philosophy

By title | By author | Most recent first

The Scientist as Rebel By Freeman Dyson An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls "one of the world's most original minds." Price: $22.36 (20% off)

The Bog People By P.V. Glob Introduction by Elizabeth Wayland Barber Paul T. Barber Translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Reckless Mind (paperback) By Mark Lilla How can intellectuals, who should be alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How can they take positions that, implicitly or not, endorse oppression and human suffering on a vast scale? Price: $13.56 (20% off)

The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (paperback) Edited by Mark Lilla Robert B. Silvers Ronald Dworkin The papers given at the New York Institute for the Humanities conference collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism. Price: $11.96 (20% off)

It Ain't Necessarily So (paperback) By Richard C. Lewontin "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." (Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review) Price: $11.96 (20% off)

The Reckless Mind By Mark Lilla The Reckless Mind is a study of how a number of important twentieth-century European intellectuals came to support tyrannical regimes and totalitarian political ideas. Price: $19.96 (20% off)

The Mystery of Consciousness By John R. Searle What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body? Price: $10.36 (20% off)

The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin Edited by Mark Lilla Robert B. Silvers Ronald Dworkin The two days of discussion preserved here demonstrate the continuing vitality and relevance of Isaiah Berlin's thought in today's social and political debates. Price: $18.36 (20% off)

The Waste Books By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Translated and with an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

It Ain't Necessarily So By Richard C. Lewontin "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." —Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review Price: $19.96 (20% off)

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness By Daniel Paul Schreber Introduction by Rosemary Dinnage The wonderful Schreber . . . ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital.—Sigmund Freud Price: $14.21 (25% off)

The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard Edited and with an introduction by W.H. Auden Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Memory Wars By Frederick C. Crews "A dazzling book. Crews brilliantly marshals the damning new scholarship on Freud the man and on analytic theory." —Carol Tavris Price: $18.36 (20% off)

The Memory Wars (paperback) By Frederick C. Crews In these essays, Crews elaborates upon his belief that "the relatively patent and vulgar pseudoscience of recovered memory rests in appreciable measure on the respectable and entrenched pseudoscience of psychoanalysis." Price: $10.36 (20% off)

Hidden Histories of Science (paperback) Edited by Robert B. Silvers These essays demonstrate that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too." Price: $11.96 (20% off)

Hidden Histories of Science Edited by Robert B. Silvers "Robert Silvers, the editor, has inspired a rewarding collection of good writing. Even where the substance inflames, the literary excellence assuages."—Walter Gratzer, Nature Price: $15.96 (20% off)

Animal Liberation By Peter Singer "Singer's documentation is unrhetorical and unemotional, his arguments tight and formidable, for he bases his case on neither personal nor religious nor highly abstract philosophical principles, but on moral positions most of us already accept."—The New York Times Book Review Price: $15.96 (20% off)