General Bibliography                                                                                             Adelheid Mers

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Anthologies/Reference

Alperson, P.A.ed; The Philosophy of the Visual Arts,  New York, 1997

Arato, Andrew and Gebhardt, Eike, eds.; The Essential Frankfurt School Reader; New York, Urizen, 1978

Brand, Peggy and Korsmeyer, Carolyn, eds.; Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995

Chipp, Herschel B., ed.; Theories of Modern Art, A Source Book by Artists and Critics; Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1968

Conrads, Ulrich, ed.; Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture; Cambridge, 1971

Harrison, Carles, Wood, Paul, eds.; Art in Theory 1900-1990; Blackwell, 1992

Harrison, Carles, Wood, Paul, Gaiger, Jason eds.; Art in Theory 1815-1900; Blackwell, 1998

Hein, Hilde and Korsmeyer, Carolyn, eds.; Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective; Indiana University Press, 1993

Knabb, Ken, ed.; Situationist International Anthology; Berkeley, 1981

MacKinnon, Barbara, ed.; American Philosophy - A Historical Anthology; SUNY, 1985

Ross, Stephen David, ed.; Art and its Significance - An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory; New York, 1994

Singer, Peter, ed.; A Companion to Ethics; Oxford, Massachusetts, 1993

Wilson, Robert A. ed.; The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences;(MITECS), 2001

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Art/Aesthetics/Anthropology

Adcock, Craig; James Turrell -The Art of Light and Space; Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990

Adorno, Theodor, Aesthetic Theory; London, New York, (1970)1986

Albers, Josef; Interaction of Color; New Haven and London, (1963), 1975

Alberti, Leon Battista; On Painting; Transl. John R. Spencer, New Haven, 1956/77

Armstrong, Richard,Marshall, Richard; The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture; Whitney Museum,NY, 1990

Bann, Stephen, Ed.; The Tradition of Constructivism; New York, 1974,

Barilli, Renato; A Course on Aesthetics; University of Minnesota Press, 1993

Berleant, Arnold; The Aesthetics of Environment; Philadelphia, 1992

Billeter, Jean Francois; The Art of Chinese Writing; Rizzoli, 1990

Blossfeldt, Karl; Bataille, Georges; Karl Blossfeldt: Art Forms In Nature: The Complete Edition; Schirmer/Mosel. 2004

Bonito Oliva, Achille; ubi fluxus ibi motus; Milano, 1990

Bourdieu, Pierre, and Haacke, Hans; Free Exchange; Stanford University Press, 1995

Bourriaud, Nicolas; Relational Aesthetics; le presses du réel. 2002

Bourriaud, Nicolas; Postproduction; Lukas & Sternberg. 2001

Brener, Milton; Faces - The Changing Look of Humankind, University Press of America, 2000

Brett, Guy, et al, ed.;Lygia Clark; Fundacio Antonio Tapies, Barcelona, 1998

Brett, Guy, et al, ed.; Helio Oiticica, Rotterdam, 1992

Broude, Norma and Garrard, Mary D., eds.; The Power of Feminist Art; Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1994

Clair, Jean; Die Verantwortung des Künstlers - Avantgarde zwischen Terror und Vernunft; Köln, 1998

Clair, Jean; Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde; Prestel USA, 1999

Colo, Papo and Camnitzer, Luis; The Hybrid State, Exit Art, New York, 1993

Danto, Arthur; Philosophizing Art; University of California Press. 1999

Davies, Maurice; Turner as Professor - The Artist and Linear Perspective; London, 1992

Deleuze, Gilles; The Fold - Leibniz and the Baroque; 1988/93

Dewey, John; Art as Experience; New York 1934/1980

Dickie, George; Introduction to Aesthetics - An Analytic Approach; Oxford University Press, 1997

Dillenberger, Jane Daggett; The Religious Art of Andy Warhol; New York, 1998

Dissanayake, Ellen; What is Art For?; University of Washington Press, 1988

Dissanayake, Ellen; Homo Aestheticus - where art comes from and why; The Free Pres, 1992

Dissanayake, Ellen; Art and Intimacy; University of Washington Press, 2000

Dufrenne, Mikel; The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience; Evanston, 1973

Duncan, Carol; Civilizing Rituals - Inside Public Art Museums; Routledge, 1995

Erlich, Victor; Russian Formalism : History and Doctrine; Yale University Press, 1981

Feinstein, Leonard; Robert Irwin - The Beauty of Questions, 1997 VIDEO

Filliou, Robert; Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts, by Robert Filliou and the reader, if he pleases; Köln, New York, 1970

Freeman, Mark; Finding the Muse; Cambridge University Press, 1994

Gell, Alfred; edited by Eric Hirsch; The art of anthropology: essays and diagrams; London,  1999

Gell, Alfred; Art and agency: an anthropological theory; 1998

Gamwell, Lynn; Exploring the Invisible - Art, Science and the Spiritual; Princeton University Press, 2002

Gombrich, E.H.; Shadows - The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art; London, 1995

Graham, Dan; Rock My Religion, Electronic Arts Intermix, 1982-84 VIDEO

Greenberg, Clement; Homemade Esthetics - observations on art and taste, Oxford University Press, 1999

Guattari, Felix; Chaosmosis - an ethico-aesthetic paradigm; Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1995

Heartney, Eleanor; Postmodern Heretics: Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art; Midmarch Arts Press, 2004

Habermas, Jürgen; Politik, Kunst, Religion, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1978

Harris, Mary Emma; The Arts at Black Mountain College; MIT Press, 1987

Harvey, David; The Condition of Postmodernity; Cambridge and Oxford, 1994

Heelan, Patrick A.; Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science, Berkeley, London,1988

Heidegger, Martin; Die Kunst und der Raum; St. Gallen, 1969

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple; The Fourth Dimension and non-Euclidean Geometry in Art; 1983

Holt, Nancy, Ed.; The Writings of Robert Smithson, New York, 1979

Ivins, William M. Jr.; On the Rationalization of Sight; New York, 1938/73

Kaminski, Jack; Hegel on Art. New York, 1962

Kepes, Gyorgy, ed.; Arts of the Environment; New York, 1972

Kris, Ernst, Kurz, Otto; Die Legende vom Künstler - Ein Geschichtlicher Versuch, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1995

(English: Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist : A Historical Experiment)

Kuspit, Donald; The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist, Cambridge University Press, 1993

Kuspit, Donald;  Idiosyncratic Identities : Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde,Cambridge, 1996

Kuspit, Donald;  Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art, Cambridge University Press, 1993

Langdon, Susan; From Pasture to Polis - Art in the Age of Homer, Columbia and London, 1993

Levine, Les; Public Mind: Les Levine’s Media Sculpture and Mass Ad Campaign 1969-1990;  Everson Museum of Art, 1990

Lifshitz, Mikhail; The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx, 1938, 1973, London

Lippard, Lucy R.; The Pink Glass Swan - Selected Feminist Essays on Art; New York, 1995

Lippard, Lucy R.; Mixed Blessings - New Art in a Multicultural America; New York, 1990/2000

Lord, James; A Giacometti Portrait; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965

Lucie-Smith, Edward; Movements in Art Since 1945; London, 1969, revised 1995

Malevich, Kazimir; The Non-ObjectiveWorld; Chicago, 1959

Mantegna, Gianfranco; Joseph Beuys: Dialogue with Audience,  Electronic Arts Intermix, 1980 VIDEO

Marcuse, Ludwig; Collected Papers Volume 4: Art and Liberation, Routledge, 1998

Marcuse, Ludwig; The Aesthetic Dimension; Boston. 1977

McGill, Douglas C.; Michael Heizer - Effigy Tumuli; New York, 1990

Mitchell, William J.; The Reconfigured Eye; Cambridge, 1992

Molesworth, Helen; Alexander,M. Darsie; Bryan-Wilson, Julia, Eds.; Work Ethic; Pennsylvania State University Press. 2003

Novak, Barbara; Nineteenth Century American Painting; Sotheby’s Publications, 1986

Panamarenko; Automobile und Flugmaschinen; Luzern, 1972

Panofsky, Erwin; Perspective as Symbolic Form; New York, 1991

Panofsky, Erwin; The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, Princeton, 1962

Plant, Sadie; The Most Radical Gesture - The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age; London and New York, 1992

Popper, Frank; Art-action and participation; New York, 1975

Read, Herbert; The Grass Roots of Art; Cleveland and New York, 1961

Rickey, George; Constructivism, origins and evolution; New York, 1967, revised 1995

Roblin,Ronald; ed.; The Aesthetics of the Critical Theorists - Studies on , Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990

Rush, Michael; New Media in Late 20th-Century Art; London, New York, 1999

Sandler, Adam; The Triumph of American Painting - A History of Abstract Expressionism; Harper&Row, 1992

Schiller; Friedrich; On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a series of letters(1793); New York, 1974

Schimmel, Paul; Out of Action - Between Performance and Object; MOCA, 1998

Schor, Mira; Wet - On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture; Duke University Press, 1997

Shearer, Rhonda Roland; Coffee Mates (Duchamp/Poincaré); p. 14, The Sciences, March/April 1997

Shusterman, Richard; Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art; Second Edition, 2000

Staniszewski, Mary Anne; The Power of Display; MIT Press 1998

Staniszewski, Mary Anne; Believing Is Seeing : Creating the Culture of Art, Penguin USA, 1994

Vasari, Giorgio;The Lives of the Artists; Oxford University Press. 1998

Virilio, Paul; The Aesthetics of Disappearance; New York, 1980

Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich; The Psychology of Art; MIT Press, 1971

Wallis, Brian, ed,: Democracy- a project by Group Material; Dia Art Foundation, New York, 1989

Warnke, Martin; Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature; Reaktion Books, London, 1994

Weschler, Lawrence; Seeing is Forgetting the Name of The Thing one Sees; Berkeley;1982

Wertheim, Margaret; The Medieval Consolations of Cyberspace; p. 24, The Sciences, November/December 1995

White, John; The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space; Cambridge, 1987

Wijers, Louwrien; Writing as Sculpture 1978-1987; London, 1996

Wijers, Louwrien, ed.;Art meets Science and Spirituality in a changing Economy; Amsterdam, 1990

Wilmerding, John, American Light - the Luminist Movement 1850-1875, Washington, 1980

Wind, Edgar; Art andAnarchy; Chicago, 1963

Wölfflin, Heinrich; Renaissance and Baroque; Ithaca, (German ‘61) 1966/ 92

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Architecture

Crowe, Norman; Nature and the idea of a man-made world; MIT Press, 1997

Harbison, Robert; The Built, The Unbuilt and the Unbuildable; Cambridge, 1992

Hersey, George; The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture; Cambridge, 1989

Higuchi, Tadahiko; The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes; Cambridge, 1989

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff; Discovering the Vernacular Landscape; New Haven and London,1984

Mosser, Monique and Teyssot, Georges, eds.: The Architecture of Western Gardens; MIT Press, 1991

Panofsky, Erwin; Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism; New York, 1957

Pérez-Gomez, Alberto and Parcell, Stephen, Ed.: Chora 1; Montreal, 1994

Pérez-Gomez, Alberto and Parcell, Stephen, Ed.: Chora 2; Montreal, 1996

Pérez-Gomez, Alberto and Pelletier Louise; Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge; MIT Press, 1997

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Language/ Visual Communication/Consciousness Studies/New Media

Abram, David; The Spell of the Sensuous; New York, 1996

Bakhtin, M.M.; The Dialogic Imagination - Four Essays; University of Texas Press Austin, 1981

Bakhtin, M.M.; Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics; University of Minnesota Press, 1984

Bakhtin, M.M.; Art and Answerability; University of Texas, 1990

Bakhtin, M.M.; Rabelais and his World; Indiana University Press, 1984

Bal, Mieke; Narratology - Introduction to the Theory of Narrative; second edition, University of Toronto Press Inc., 1997

Barillo, Renato; Rhetoric. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989

Barthes, Roland; The Rustle of Language; University of California Press, 1989

Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard; Remediation - Understanding new media; MIT Press. 1999

Bringhurst, Robert;The Elements of Typographic Style; Hartley & Marks, 1994

Bruss, Elizabeth; Beautiful Theories:The Spectacle of Discourse in Contemporary Criticism.Johns Hopkins University Press,1982

Fauconnier, Gilles; Mappings in Thought and Language; Cambridge University Press, 1997

Fauconnier, Gilles and Turner, Mark;  The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities; Basic Books. 2003

Fiske, John; Introduction to Communication Studies; Routledge, second edition,1990

Flusser, Vilém; Writings. University of Minnesota Press, 2002

Flusser, Vilém; The Shape of Things - A Philosophy of Design; Reaktion Books, 1999

Flusser, Vilém;Towards a Philosophy of Photography; Reaktion Books, 2000

Flusser, Vilém; The Freedon of the Migrant - Ob jections to Nationalism; University of Illinois Press

Freedberg, David; The Power of Images. Studies in the History and Theory of Response; University of Chicago Press. 1989

Gardner, Martin; Logic Machines and Diagrams; Chicago. 1958/1982

Glasgow, Janice et al, eds: Diagrammatic Reasoning - Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; AAAIPress/MIT Press1995

Goguen, Joseph; Art and the Brain : Controversies in Science & the Humanities (Journal of Consciousness Studies Volume 6 (1999) June - July

Holquist, Michael; Dialogism. Routledge, 1990

Hoopes, James; Peirce on Signs - Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce, University of North Carolina Press, 1991

Jacobson, Robert, ed.; Information Design; MIT Press, 1999

Johnson, Mark; The Body in the Mind - The Bodily Basics of Meaning, Imagination and Reason; University of Chicago Press. 1987

Krieger, Murray; The Institution of Theory.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.

Joyce, Michael; Othermindedness - the emergence of network culture; University of Michigan Press. 2000

Lakoff,George; Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind; The University of Chicago Press.1987

Lakoff,George; Johnson, Mark; Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought; Basic Books, 1999

Lakoff,George; Johnson, Mark; Metaphors we live by; University of Chicago Press, 2003

Liu, James J..L.; Language Paradox Poetics - A Chinese Perspective; Princeton, 1988

Massumi, Brian; Movement, Affect, Sensation - Parables for the Virtual; Duke University Press, 2002

Maturana, Humberto R.; The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding; Shambhala Publications, 1998

Mitchell, W. J.T.; Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation; University of Chicago Press. 1994

Mitchell, W. J.T.; Iconology - Image, Text Ideology; University of Chicago Press. 1986

Möntmann, Nina, ed.; Art and its Institutions. Black Dog Publishing. 2006

Nørretranders, Tor; The User Illusion - Cutting Consciousness Down to Size; (1991) Penguin Books, 1999

Parmentier, Richard J; Signs in Society - Studies in Semiotic Anthropology; Indiana University Press, 1994

Pfeiffer, Ludwig; Das Mediale und das Imaginäre - Dimensionen kulturanthropologischer Medientheorie, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1999

Ryan, Marie-Laure; Narrative as Virtual Reality - Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2001

Saussure, Ferdinand de; Course in General Linguistics; La Salle,1991

Schapiro, Meyer; Words, Script, and Pictures : Semiotics of Visual Language; George Braziller, 1996

Schmidt, Bernd B.; Die Macht der Bilder, Bildkommunikation - menschliche Fundamentalkommunikation. Aachen, 2002

Schultz, Emily A.; Dialogue at the Margins - Whorf, Bakhtin, and Linguistic relativity; University of Wisconsin Press, 1990

Searchinger, Gene; TheHuman Language (3 Parts, w. Noam Chomsky), Thirteen/WNET, 1993 VIDEO

Seward Barry, Ann Marie; Visual Intelligence - Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication; Albany, 1997

Sillars, Stuart; Visualization in Popular Fiction 1860-1960; London and New York, 1995

Steiner, Wendy; Pictures of Romance - Form against Context in Painting and Literature; U of C Press, 1988

Steiner, Wendy; The Colors of Rhetoric: Problems in the Relation between Modern Literature and Painting; U of C Press, 1982

Tufte, Edward R. ; Envisioning Information; Graphics Press, 1990

Tufte, Edward R. ; The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; Graphics Press, 1992

Tufte, Edward R., Krasny, Dmitry (Illustrator);Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative; Graphics Press, 1997      

Turner, Mark; The Literary Mind; Oxford University Press, 1998

Varela, Francisco; The Embodied Mind; MIT Press, 1992

Whorf, Benjamin Lee; Language,Thought and Reality; Cambridge 1989

Wilson, Stephen; Information Arts - intersections of art, science, and technology; MIT Press. 2002

McLuhan, Marshall; Understanding Media; MIT Press, 1994

Woolley, Benjamin; Virtual Worlds; London, 1993

Zeki, Semir; Inner Vision : An Exploration of Art and the Brain; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Music/ Sound

Barthes, Roland; The Responsibility of Forms- Critical Essays on Music, Art and Representation; Berkeley and Los Angeles 1991

Bartok, Bela; Essays; Lincoln and London, (1976) 1992

Bosseur, Jean-Yves; Sound and the Visual Arts: Intersections between music and plastic arts today; Paris, 1993

de la Motte-Haber, Helga ; Klangkunst, München, New York, 1996(includes CD)

Griffiths, Paul; Modern Music - a concise history; revised edition, London, New York, 1994

Ihde, Don; Listening and Voice - A Phenomenology of Sound; Athens, Ohio, 1976

Jowitt, Deborah; Meredith Monk, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1997

Maconie, Robin; The Concept of Music; New York, 1990

Orrey, Leslie; Opera - a Concise History; revised edition, London, New York 1987

Sachs, Curt; Rhythm and Tempo - A Study in Music History, New York, 1953

Schafer, R. Murray; Our Sonic Environment and the Soundscape - The Tuning of the World; New York, 1977, Rochester 1994

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Philosophy

Augé, Marc; Orte und Nicht-Orte, Frankfurt, 1994 (english: Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity)

Bachelard, Gaston; The Poetics of Space, Boston ,1964

Baudrillard, Jean; Selected Writings, Stanford, 1988

Becker, Carl L.; The Heavenly City of the 18th Century Philosophers, 1932

Burckhardt, Martin; Metamorphosen von Raum und Zeit - eine Geschichte der Wahrnehmung; Frankfurt, New York, 1994

Casey, Edward S.; The Fate of Place - A Philosophical History, University of California Press, (1997) 1998

Claesges, Ulrich; Edmund Husserls Theorie der Raumkonstitution, Den Haag 1964

Debord, Guy; The Society of the Spectacle, New York, 1995 (1967)

Debord, Guy; Comments on the Society of the Spectacle; London, New York, 1990 (1988)

Derrida, Jaques; Chora, Wien, 1990

Derrida, Jaques; Edmund Husserl’s ‘Origin of Geometry’:An Introduction, Stony Brook, New York, 1978

Descartes, Rene; Meditations on First Philosophy, Indianapolis, 1960

Dewey, John; Experience and Nature; New York, 1958

Dewey, John; Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920; enlarged edition 1948) Boston, 1957

Dewey, John;The Quest for Certainty - A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action, (Gifford Lectures 1929), London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1930

Dewey, John; The Influence of Darwin on Phiosophy and other Essays, New York, 1997

Dewey, John; Theory of Valuation; University of Chicago, (1939) 1969

Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Natural History of Intellect, New York, 1995

Emsbach, Michael; Sophistik als Aufklärung, Würzburger Wissenschaftliche Schriften Band IV, 1980

Foucault, Michel ; The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, New York, 1982

Fuller, R. Buckminster; Critical Path, New York, 1991

Goodman, Karen;  Simon, Kirk; Buckminster Fuller - Thinking out Loud, Zeitgeist Films, 1996 VIDEO

Guattari, Felix; Chaosophy, New York, 1995

Habermas, Jürgen; Vom sinnlichen Eindruck zum symbolischen Ausdruck, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1997

Habermas, Jürgen; Die Moderne-Ein Unvollendetes Projekt, Reclam, Leipzig, 1994

Habermas, Jürgen; Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1988

Heidegger, Martin; Poetry, Language, Thought; New York, 1975

Hobbes, Thomas; Metaphysical Writings, LaSalle, 1989

Huizinga, Johan; Homo Ludens - a study of the play element in culture (1944); Boston, 1968

Husserl, Edmund; Ding und Raum Vorlesungen 1907, Den Haag 1973

Ihde, Don; Hermeneutic Phenomenology - The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur; Evanston, 1971

Ihde, Don; Experimental Phenomenology - An Introduction, 1977

Ihde, Don; Consequences of Phenomenology; New York, 1986

Jammer, Max; Concepts of Space, with a foreword by Albert Einstein, Cambridge, 1969

Kant, Immanuel; Inaugural Dissertation and Early Writings on Space, Chicago and London, 1929

Kant, Immanuel; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, London, New York, (1948) 1997

Kant, Immanuel; The Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge University Press, 1993

Langer, Monika M.; Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, a guide and commentary; Tallahassee, 1989

Lefebvre, Henri; The Production of Space, Cambridge, 1991

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von; Monadology and other Philosophical Essays; Indianapolis 1965

Locke, John; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, New York, 1964

Lyotard, Jean-Francois; Phenomenology, New York, 1991

Lyotard, Jean-Francois; The Inhuman; Stanford, California, 1991

Lyotard, Jean-Francois; The Postmodern Condition : A Report on Knowledge, University of Minnesota Press, 1985

McKeon, Richard; On Knowing - The Natural Sciences; University of Chicago Press, 1994

McLuhan, Marshal, and Powers, Bruce; The Global Village, Oxford, 1989

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice; Sense and Non-Sense, Evanston 1964

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice; Phenomenology of Perception, London, 1962/89

Osborne, Richard; Philosophy for Beginners, New York, 1992

Peirce, Charles Sanders; Chance, Love and Logic; New York, 1923

Plato; ‘Collected Dialogues’, Princeton, 1971

Polanyi, Michael; Meaning, Chicago, 1968

Polanyi, Michael; Personal Knowledge; New York and Evanston, 1964

Russel, Bertrand; A History of Western Philosophy; New York, 1945

Rorty, Richard; Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. Cambridge University Press. 1989

Sajama, Seppo, and Kamppinen, Matti; A Historical Introduction to Phenomenology; New York, 1987

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock; Pragmatism and Feminism; University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1996

Simplicius; Corollaries on Place and Time, Ithaca, 1992

Singer, Dorothea W.; Giordano Bruno - His Life and Thought (contains: “On the Infinite Universe and Worlds); New York 1950

Sloterdijk, Peter; Critique of Cynical Reason; (Suhrkamp,1983) Minneapolis, 1987

Stroll, Avrum; Surfaces, Minneapolis, 1988

Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Remarks on Color; Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1978

Wittgenstein, Ludwig; On Certainty. New York, 1969

Wright, Richard A., ed.;African Philosophy: An Introduction. University Press of America. 1979

Zajonc, Arthur; Catching the Light - The Entwined History of Light and Mind; New York, 1993

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Religion, History, Social and Political Sciences, Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, Psychology

Adorno, Theodor, Horkheimer, Max; Dialectic of Enlightenment, Continuum, 1976

Bataille,Georges; Theory of Religion; New York 1989

Bataille, Georges; The Accursed Share, 3Vol., New York, 1991

Becker, Howard S. ; Art Worlds. University of California Press, 1982

Benjamin ,Walter; Gesammelte Schriften  I und II, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1997

Benjamin ,Walter; Illuminations, (Frankfurt 1955) New York, 1968/1985

Benson, Ciarán; The Cultural Psychology of Self - place, morality and art in human worlds; London and New York, 2001

Berger, Peter L, Luckmann, Thomas; The Social Construction of Reality, New York, 1966

Boorstin, Daniel J.; The Image. A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America; New York, 1978

Booth, Wayne C.; Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent; Notre Dame and London, 1974

Bourdieu, Pierre; Practical Reason, Stanford University Press 1998

Bruner, Jerome S.; On Knowing; Essays for the Left Hand;

Buber, Martin; On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity, Chicago and London, 1992

Buber, Martin; Eclipse of God - Studies in ther relation between religion and philosophy, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1952/1988

Canetti, Elias; Crowds and Power, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984

Collins, Randall; Four Sociological Traditions, New York, Oxford, 1994

Cornford, F. M.; From Religion to Philosophy - A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation ; Princeton, (1912) 1991

Dante ; The Inferno, (John Ciardi), New York, 1982

Earle, William, Edie, James M., Wild, John; Christianity and Existentialism; Evanston, 1963

Eck, Diana L.; Darsan - Seeing the Divine Image in India; New York, (1981, 85) 1996

Eliade, Mircea; The Sacred and the Profane; New York, 1959

Elias, Norbert; The Society of Individuals. New York, 1991 (1987)

Erikson, Erik H.;  Kinderspiel und politische Phantasie. Stufen in der Ritualisierung der Realität; Frankfurt, 1981

Fiske, Jonathan; Understanding Popular Culture. Routledge, 1989

Fiske, Jonathan; Reading the Popular. Routledge, 1989

Freeman, Kathleen; Greek City-States, New York, 1963

Freire, Paulo; Teachers as Cultural Workers; Boulder, Colorado, 1998

Garfinkel, Harold; Studies in Ethnomethodology; (1967), Los Angeles, 1984

Giddens, Anyjony; Modernity and Self-Identity. Stanford University Press. 1991

Gilligan, Carol; In a Different Voice,  Harvard University Press,1982, 1993

Gilligan, Carol and Ward, J.V., McLean Taylor, J.; Mapping the Moral Domain. 1988. Harvard University Press

Gilligan, Carol and Brown, L.M.; Meeting at the Crossroads - Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development. 1992. New York

Giroux, Henry;  Impure Acts : The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies , Routledge, 2000

Giroux, Henry; Border Crossings - cultural workers and the politics of education; New York and London, 1992

Gray, Sir Alexander; The Development of Economic Doctrine - An Introductory Survey; 2nd edition revised by Alan Thompson, London and New York, (1931), 1980

Hart, Roger; Children’s Experience of Place, New York, 1982

Hinton, Perry F.; Stereotypes, Cognition and Culture. Psychology Press, Philadelphia, 2000

Hofstadter, Richard; Social Darwinism in American Thought, (1944, revised 1955, with new Introduction 1992,) Boston, 1998

Hooke, S.H.; Middle Eastern Mythology from the Assyrians to the Hebrews, London 1963

Horkheimer, Max; Critical Theory, Continuum, 1975

Horwitz, Morton J.; The Transformation of American Law 1780-1860; Harvard University Press, 1977

Horwitz, Morton J.; The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960; Oxford University Press, 1992

James, William; The Varieties of Religious Experience, New York, (1902)1985

Jay, Martin; The Dialectical Imagination - A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950, University of California Press, 1996

Jost, John T. and Major, Brenda, eds.; The Psychologgy of Legitimacy - Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Kaufman, Gershen; The Psychology of Shame. Springer. 1989

Klein, Anne C.; “Meeting the Great Bliss Queen - Buddhists, Feminists and the Art of the Self”. Boston, 1995

Lakoff, George; Moral Politics : What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't,  University of Chicago Press, 1996

Lee, Yueh-Ting et al, eds.; Stereotype Accuracy - toward appreciating group differences;APA,  Washington, DC, 1995

Lee, Yueh-Ting et al. eds.; Personality and Person Perception across Cultures, New Jersey and London, 1999

Lovin, Robin W. and Reynolds, Frank E., eds.; Cosmogony and Ethical Order. University of Chicago Press, 1985

MacFadyen, Gavin; The Diamond Empire, WGBH/Frontline, 1994 VIDEO

March, James G. and Olsen, Johan P.; Democratic Governance. Free Press. 1995

Marcuse, Ludwig; Schriften, Suhrkamp, 1978

Marcuse, Ludwig; Collected Papers Volume 1: On Technology, War and Fascism, Routledge, 1998

Martin, Luther H., ed.: Technologies of the Self - a seminar with Michel Foucault. University of Massachusetts Press, 1988

McLuhan, Marshall; The Medium And The Light: Reflections On Religion, Toronto, 1999

Moore, Charles A., ed.; The Status of the Individual in East and West; University of Hawaii Press, 1968

Parin, Paul, Morgenthaler, Fritz; Parin-Matthey, Goldy; Die Weissen Denken zuviel; 1972

Piaget, Jean, and Inhelder, Bärbel; The Child’s Conception of Space, New York, 1967

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Science/Technology

Abbott, Edwin A.; Flatland, New York 1952

Adas, Michael; Machine as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance, Ithaca, London 1989

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Fenichell, Stephen; Plastic: the making of a synthetic century; New York, 1996

Feynman, Richard; Six Easy Pieces; Cal-Tec, (1963)1994

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de; Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, Berkeley, Los Angeles,1990

Ghyka, Matila; The Geometry of Art and Life, 1977, New York

Hoseph, George Gheverghese; The Crest of the Peacock - Non-European Roots of Mathematics; London, 1992

Ihde, Don; Instrumental Realism; The Interface between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology; Indiana University Press, 1991

Ihde, Don; Philosophy of Technology-An Introduction; New York, 1993

Ihde, Don; Expanding Hermeneutics : Visualism in Science, Evanston, 1999

Knorr, Wilbur Richard; The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems, New York, 1986

Kuhn, Thomas S.; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago, 1962, 1970

Lawlor, Robert; Sacred Geometry, London, 1982

Miller, Arthur I.; Imagery in Scientific Thought, MIT Press, (1984) 1987

Minnaert, Marcel; Light and Color in the Outdoors, Springer Verlag, 1993

Sambursky, Samuel; Physics of the Stoics, London, 1987

Sambursky, Samuel; Physical Thought from the Presocratics to the Quantum Physicists

Snyder, John P. Flattening the Earth-2000 years of Map Projections; Chicago and London, 1993/97

Toulmin/Goodfield; The Discovery of Time; U of C Press, (1965) 1989

Wood, Denis; The Power of Maps, Scientific American, May 1993

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