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== Published works == === Books === The books published by Hofstadter are (the ISBNs refer to paperback editions, where available): *''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach|Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid]]'' ({{ISBN|0-465-02656-7}}) (1979) *''[[Metamagical Themas]]'' ({{ISBN|0-465-04566-9}}) (collection of ''Scientific American'' columns and other essays, all with postscripts) (1985) *''Ambigrammi: un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creatività'' ({{ISBN|88-7757-006-7}}) (in Italian only) *''[[Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies]]'' (co-authored with several of Hofstadter's graduate students) ({{ISBN|0-465-02475-0}}) *''Rhapsody on a Theme by Clement Marot'' ({{ISBN|0-910153-11-6}}) (1995, published 1996; volume 16 of series ''The Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values'') *''[[Le Ton beau de Marot]]: In Praise of the Music of Language'' ({{ISBN|0-465-08645-4}}) *''[[I Am a Strange Loop]]'' ({{ISBN|0-465-03078-5}}) (2007) *''Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking'', co-authored with Emmanuel Sander ({{ISBN|0-465-01847-5}}) (first published in French as ''L'Analogie. Cœur de la pensée''; published in English in the U.S. in April 2013) === Involvement in other books === Hofstadter has written forewords for or edited the following books: *''[[The Mind's I]]: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul'' (co-edited with [[Daniel Dennett]]), 1981. ({{ISBN|0-465-03091-2}}, {{ISBN|0-553-01412-9}}) and ({{ISBN|0-553-34584-2}}) *''Inversions'', by [[Scott Kim]], 1981. (Foreword) ({{ISBN|1-55953-280-7}}) *''[[Alan Turing: The Enigma]]'' by [[Andrew Hodges]], 1983. (Preface) *''[[Sparse Distributed Memory]]'' by [[Pentti Kanerva]], Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1988. (Foreword) ({{ISBN|0-262-11132-2}}) *''Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue'' by J.M. Jauch, Indiana University Press, 1989. (Foreword) ({{ISBN|0-253-20545-X}}) *''Gödel's Proof'' (2002 revised edition) by [[Ernest Nagel]] and [[James R. Newman]], edited by Hofstadter. In the foreword, Hofstadter explains that the book (originally published in 1958) exerted a profound influence on him when he was young. ({{ISBN|0-8147-5816-9}}) *''Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History'' by [[Alice Burks|Alice Rowe Burks]], 2003. (Foreword) *''[[Alan Turing]]: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker'' by [[Christof Teuscher]], 2003. (editor) *''Brainstem Still Life'' by [[Jason Salavon]], 2004. (Introduction) ({{ISBN|981-05-1662-2}}) *''Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion'' by [[Al Seckel]], 2004. (Foreword) *''[[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter|King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry]]'' by [[Siobhan Roberts]], Walker and Company, 2006. (Foreword) *''Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science'' by [[Karl Sigmund]], Basic Books, 2017. Hofstadter wrote the foreword and helped with the translation. *''To Light the Flame of Reason: Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century'' by [[Christopher Sturmark]], Prometheus, 2022. (Foreword and Contributions) ===Translations=== *''[[Eugene Onegin]]: A Novel Versification'' from the Russian original of [[Alexander Pushkin]], 1999. ({{ISBN|0-465-02094-1}}) *''[[The Discovery of Dawn]]'' from the Italian original of [[Walter Veltroni]], 2007. ({{ISBN|978-0-8478-3109-8}}) *''That Mad Ache'', co-bound with ''Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation'', from the French original [[La chamade]] of [[Francoise Sagan]]), 2009. ({{ISBN|978-0-465-01098-1}})
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