Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
The Fiction of Junot Díaz
Reframing the Lens
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The influence of Latin American writers—as well as other immigrant writers and their first-generation peers—has reframed the literary lens to include multiple views and codify the shift away from the tradition of white male writers who formed the core of the American literary canon for generations....
Pathways to Power
The Domestic Politics of South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Pathways to Power introduces the domestic politics of South Asia in their broadest possible context, studying ongoing transformative social processes grounded in cultural forms. In doing so, it reveals the interplay between politics, cultural values, human security, and historical luck. While these...
Rethinking Poles and Jews
Troubled Past, Brighter Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators...
by Richard L. Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book examines the relationship between jihad and genocide, past and present. Richard L. Rubenstein takes a close look at the violent interpretations of jihad and how they have played out in the past hundred years, from the Armenian genocide through current threats to Israel. Rubenstein's unflinching...
by Anthony Preus
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The ancient Greeks were not only the founders of western philosophy, but the actual term "philosophy" is Greek in origin, most likely dating back to the late sixth century BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Euclid, and Thales are but a few of the better-known philosophers of ancient...
Economics as Ideology
Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover examines how each...
by Jürgen Matthäus, Frank Bajohr
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party’s chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining...
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
God, Philosophy, Universities
A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
"What does it mean to be a human being?" Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially...
The Myth of an Afterlife
The Case against Life After Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Because every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know what—if anything—awaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise that the vast majority of books...
A Concise History of Modern Europe
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific...
Karl Marx
The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism? In Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason, Allan Megill begins with this question. Megill's examination of Marx's formative writings casts new light on Marx's relation to philosophy and reveals a hitherto largely...
by George Kateb, Princeton University
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principle contributions is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. During much of his life, Emerson was considered a radical thinker, and his opposition to established religious opinion was scandalous. Emerson's...
Thoreau's Nature
Ethics, Politics, and the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild,' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human...