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Kierkegaard's Writings, XV, Volume 15
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said, "I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to understand Kierkegaard does well to begin...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVII, Volume 17
Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress.
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
First published in 1848, Christian Discourses is a quartet of pieces written and arranged in contrasting styles. Parts One and Three, "The Cares of the Pagans" and "Thoughts That Wound from Behind--for Upbuilding," serve as a polemical overture to Kierkegaard's collision with the...
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
The Complete Translation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon’s influential and delightfully entertaining memoir
Solomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. The American...
by Jerry Z. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism,...
Racism
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most...
by Avishai Margalit
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are...
The Secular City
Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of hierarchical, institutional religion, and the place of the secular within society. Now, half a century later, this...
The Jews and the Nation
Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book is the first systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France--specifically, from the two countries' revolutions through the American republic and the Napoleonic era (1775-1815). Frederic Jaher develops a vehicle for a broader and uniquely rich analysis...
After Cloven Tongues of Fire
Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian...
The Philosopher
A History in Six Types
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions—ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that, providing...
by Raymond Geuss
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound by a shared skepticism about a particular way...
Multiculturalism
(Expanded paperback edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1994
A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry,...
The Importance of Being Civil
The Struggle for Political Decency
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? The Importance of Being Civil offers the most comprehensive look at the nature and advantages of civility, throughout history and in our world today. Esteemed sociologist John Hall expands our understanding of civility as...
A Turn to Empire
The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as...