Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the…

During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…

Brought to Florence by Lorenzo de' Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), a Dominican friar, would…

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A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound…

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…

Contains the author's analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on beauty in all its…

The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…

The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets…

Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962 this book looks at key issues and people that shaped Soviet foreign policy.…

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of…

Presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the…

In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…

This volume presents the visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino. His Platonic evangelizing was…

The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favoured imitation of Cicero…

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind…

The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled…

The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio-a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli-are…

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), considered the philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A…

With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude,…

A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is…

Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an…

Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and…

Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach…

According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes…

Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars,…

Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic…

From the ashes of empire, the nation rose on a wave of idealism. That, at least, is the standard tale. Dominique Reill…

In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at…

Equity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global gender gap in science. Analyzing millions…

Imagination is thought to be the province of childhood-the stuff of free play and unrestrained ideas. Then comes the dull…

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\nMichael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the…

This is an introduction to Jacques Lacan's approach to therapy, from the point of view of a practitioner faced with the…

Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile,…

Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary…

Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that…

Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He…

Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in…

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This text, the conclusion…

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects:…

Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Inuit…

The human brain evolved to prioritize short-term rewards over long-term goals. But while this adaptation served our…

The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance,…

Francis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask…