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Modernization and Postmodernization
<p>Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, ...
1997
Orpheus and Greek Religion
<p>The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of s...
1993
On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
<p>G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades of work, it contains previously uncollected articles that have shaped many of the central deb...
2011
A History of Palestine
<p>It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century--that shaped modern Palestine. The first book of its kind, <i>A History of Palestine</i> offers a richly detailed interpretation of this critica...
2008
Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War
<p>Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the "Whites" and the "Reds," Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies and governments as on the interaction of state institutions, political parties, and social movements on both Red and White territories. In the process, he exposes the w...
2015
Boilerplate
<p><b>Why the increasing use of boilerplate is eroding our rights</b><br><br>Boilerplate-the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click "I agree" online, rent an apartment, enter an employment contract, sign up for a cellphone carrier, or buy travel tickets-pervades all aspects of our modern lives. On a daily basis, most of us accept boilerplate provisions without real...
2014
Introduction to mathematical logic (pms-13), volume 13
Introduction to mathematical logic (pms-13), volume 13
1996
Kierkegaard's Writings, XV, Volume 15
<p>In his praise for Part I of <i>Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits</i>, 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 with it." These discourses, composed after Kierkegaard had initially intended to end his public w...
2009
Kierkegaard's Writings, XX, Volume 20
<p>Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his "richest and most fruitful year," Kierkegaard specified <i>Practice in Christianity</i> as "the most perfect and truest thing." In his reflections on such topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of offense, and the exalted Christ, he takes as his theme the requirement of Christian ideality in the context of...
1991
More Than You Wanted to Know
<p><b>How mandated disclosure took over the regulatory landscape-and why it failed</b><br><br>Perhaps no kind of regulation is more common or less useful than mandated disclosure-requiring one party to a transaction to give the other information. It is the iTunes terms you assent to, the doctor's consent form you sign, the pile of papers you get with your mortgage. Reading the terms, the form, and...
2016
Plato's Cretan City
<p><i>Plato's Cretan City</i> is a thorough investigation into the roots of Plato's <i>Laws</i> and a compelling explication of his ideas on legislation and social institutions. A dialogue among three travelers, the <i>Laws</i> proposes a detailed plan for administering a new colony on the island of Crete. In examining this dialogue, Glenn Morrow describes the contemporary Greek institutions in At...
1993
Religion after Religion
<p>By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look out of place. It was in this atmosphere that the careers of Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin--the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judai...
1999
The Aryan Jesus
<p>Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In <i>The Aryan Jesus</i>, Susannah Hesch...
2010
The Birth of Fascist Ideology
<p>When <i>The Birth of Fascist Ideology</i> was first published in 1989 in France and in 1993 in Italy, it aroused a storm of response, both positive and negative. In Sternhell's view, fascism was much more than an episode in the history of Italy. He argues here that it possessed a coherent ideology with deep roots in European civilization. Long before fascism became a political force, he maintai...
1994
The Meaning of More's Utopia
<p>Examining its relation to ancient and Renaissance political thought, George M. Logan sees Thomas More's Utopia whole, in all its ironic complexity. He finds that the book is not primarily a prescriptive work that restates the ideals of Christian humanism or warns against radical idealism, but an exploration of a particular method of political study and the implications of that method for normat...
2014
Wilhelm Dilthey
<p>The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. This volume is the third to be published in Princeton University Press's projected six-volume series of his most important works. Part One makes available three of his works on hermeneutics ...
2010
Ancient Christian Magic
<p>This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even...
1999
Enough to Say It's Far
<p>This is the first English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. In contrast to the strident political protests found in the poetry of many of his contemporaries, Pak Chaesam's work is characterized by intimate portraits of place, nature, childhood, and human relationships, and by indirection, nostalgia, and reflectiveness.<br><br><br...
2006
Science as Social Knowledge
<p>Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot support this common belief. Focusing on the notion of evidence, the author argues that a methodol...
1990
The divine comedy, ii. purgatorio, vol. ii. part 2
The divine comedy, ii. purgatorio, vol. ii. part 2
1991
The divine comedy, iii. paradiso, vol. iii. part 2
The divine comedy, iii. paradiso, vol. iii. part 2
1991
Governing the Market
<p>Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's <i>Governing the Market</i> quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attributed the success of Taiwan and other countries to government intervention. Instead, Wade t...
2003