In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, this title sheds light on the value of science…

While competitive natural selection is widely assumed to be evolution's prime mover, Weiss shows how life generally works on…

Benjamin Elman describes how education, examinations, and civil service fostered the world's first professional class based…

Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by "lyric shame"-an unspoken but…

There are bizarre moments when we feel like strangers to ourselves. Through an investigation of Heidegger's concept of…

Philology-the discipline of making sense of texts-is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the…

This study of how American literature is enmeshed with literatures of Asia begins with Western encounters with the Pacific…

A longtime activist-scholar takes readers through the changing landscape of academic freedom. From the aftermath of…

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented…

Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But…

A psychoanalytically informed analysis of the rhetorical and conceptual mechanisms with which postwar Germans most often…

Lovibond suggests how the "practical reason view of ethics" can survive challenges from within philosophy and from the…

John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional…

Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad…

Patronage systems in public service are reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of…

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Today most philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to "naturalist" credos that philosophy is continuous with…

Using dynamic systems theory, employed to study human communication, King demonstrates the complexity of apes' social…

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Despite claims that written exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons,…

In showing why the Carbonari conspiracy developed and how it was handled, the author has illuminated the workings of the…

Why do free people submit to any rule? How is consent of the governed formed? Block argues that the source is found in the…

From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the robot - has captured the Western imagination and…

Tim Crane takes up fundamental philosophical questions of consciousness, perception, and the experience of our own mental…

While pundits boil down elections to a choice between Democrat and Republican, The American Political Landscape explains how…

China's leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America's New Deal, but they…

At a moment when Congress is viewed by a skeptical public as hyper-partisan and dysfunctional, Richard Fenno provides a…

Theft causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet fundamental questions about what should count as…

Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to explain rationality by viewing the mind as a kind of machine-the only alternative,…

This book confirms the idea put forth by Tocqueville that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism-citizens'…

This investigation not only revises what historians have long thought of the attitude of barristers toward the French…

This exhaustive resource offers information on everything from adolescent acne to menopause in the belief that…

Hilary Putnam argues that all facts are dependent on cognitive values. Ruth Anna Putnam turns the problem around,…

Combining painstaking documentation with an abundance of illustrations, this colorful, complete work ranks as a valuable…

No Small Matter uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and…

We associate prejudice with ignorance and bigotry and consider it a source of injustice. Can prejudice have a legitimate…

Linda Nochlin explores the contradictions and dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book confronts the issues…

In From Kant to Husserl, Charles Parsons examines a wide range of historical opinion on philosophical questions from…

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity-and what place did Jewish…

Understanding "what something is" has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the…

The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense…

This book explores the recent spread of political efforts to rectify past injustices. Although it recognizes that…

In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another,…

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A widely-accepted explanation for India's national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement-poet-saints singing…

Annette Baier goes beyond her earlier work on David Hume to reflect on a topic that links his philosophy to questions of…

Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience-from a mix of the political aspirations and…

One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of…

Presents a comparative analysis of religion-and-state jurisprudence from dozens of countries worldwide to explore the role…

The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals. The…