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by John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This volume brings together for the first time all the writings of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill on equality between the sexes, including John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women, a classic in the history of the women's rights movement since its publication one hundred years ago.
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Far Afield
French Anthropology between Science and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language...
God Owes Us Nothing
A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
God Owes Us Nothing reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own salvation or damnation. Leszek Kolakowski approaches...
Leo Strauss's Defense of the Philosophic Life
Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?"
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Leo Strauss’s What Is Political Philosophy? addresses almost every major theme in his life’s work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Yet precisely because the book is so foundational, if we want to understand Strauss’s notoriously careful and complex thinking...
by Philip W. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of “finding out just what education is.” Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey’s charge to heart and spent the next sixty years contemplating his words. The...
Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome
The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism: The Carus Lectures, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and Europe unsettle one another.
"Cavell's...
by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
"Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts....
Kindly Inquisitors
The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.”...
The Corporate Commonwealth
Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value.
Henry S. Turner uses the...
The Concept of the Political
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab’s...
Cultural Capital
The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
John Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new theoretical framework. The result is a book that promises to recast not only the debate about the literary curriculum but also the controversy over "multiculturalism"...
by John Hope Franklin, Michael W. Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reconstruction after the Civil War explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and controversial scholarship, John Hope Franklin uses his astute insight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive portrait of the era. His arguments...
The Human Condition
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from totalitarianism to revolution.
A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects...
by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile...