Penn State University Press: 456 books
The Colonels’ Coup and the American Embassy
A Diplomat’s View of the Breakdown of Democracy in Cold War Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Robert Keeley was a Foreign Service officer stationed in Greece during one of the most tumultuous events in the country’s history, the so-called Colonels’ coup of April 21, 1967. This is his insider’s account of how U.S. policy was formulated, debated, and implemented from 1966 to 1969, the...
by Albert Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Sweet describes the pragmatic foundations of standard logic and applies these foundations to the task of developing a theory of intended models as an extension of standard model theory in which the relevant "intending" is represented pragmatically. Methods of formal logic are used to investigate...
Love in a Time of Slaughters
Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Love in a Time of Slaughters examines a diverse array of contemporary creative narratives in which genocide and extinction blur species lines in order to show how such stories can promote the preservation of biological and cultural diversity in a time of man-made threats to species survival.
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Reconsidering Difference
Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1997
French philosophy since World War II has been preoccupied with the issue of difference. Specifically, it has wanted to promote or to leave room for ways of living and of being that differ from those usually seen in contemporary Western society. Given the experience of the Holocaust, the motivation...
Receptive Human Virtues
A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards’s virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as “virtues” and considers their importance for contemporary ethics. Each of Edwards’s human virtues is “receptive” in nature: humans acquire the virtues through receiving...
The Authority of Experience
Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1996
Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century...
Chaos and Cosmos
Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental...
David Hume
Historical Thinker, Historical Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s...
by Richard T. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1996
Debates over postmodernism, analyses of knowledge and power, and the recurring issue of Heidegger's Nazism have all deepened questions about the relation between philosophy and the social roles of intellectuals. Against such postmodernist rejections of philosophical theory as mounted by Rorty and...
Storytelling Apes
Primatology Narratives Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of Tanzania, whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has studied for decades; the mountain gorillas...
by Malcolm D. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1991
M. D. Allen's study deals with T. E. Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with whom he fought in an archaic theater of war, and hence his own literary production.
The Medievalism...
An Inch or Two of Time
Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century...
Mysticism
Experience, Response, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 1996
This sweeping study of mysticism by Jess Hollenback considers the writings and experiences of a broad range of traditional religious mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Black Elk, and Gopi Krishna. It also makes use of a new category of sources that more traditional scholars have almost entirely ignored,...
Infinite Autonomy
The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality—to consider whether we were right to reject...