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The Europeanization of the World
<p><i>The Europeanization of the World</i> puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy-at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism. John Headley argues that the Renaissance and the Reformation provided the effective currents for the deve...
2007
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
<p>Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., <i>The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo</i> is an anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. Translated into Greek in 1505, it informed much of Western iconography from the sixteenth ...
1993
The History and Geography of Human Genes
<p>Hailed as a breakthrough in the understanding of human evolution, <i>The History and Geography of Human Genes</i> offers the first full-scale reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world. By mapping the worldwide geographic distribution of genes for over 110 traits in over 1800 primarily aboriginal populations, the authors charted ...
1996
After Hegel
<p>Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half-when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline. But Frederick Beiser argues that the second half of the century was in fact one of the most revolut...
2016
Creation and the Persistence of Evil
<p>This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. He traces a flexible ...
1994
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
<p>In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.</p>
1995
Democracy and Knowledge
<p>When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. <i>Democracy and Knowledge</i> is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people produces wealth, power, and security.<br><br><br> Combin...
2010
Economists and Societies
<p><i>Economists and Societies</i> is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and a wealth of scholarly evidence, Marion Fourcade traces ...
2010
John Searle
<p>One of the world's most important philosophers of mind and language, John Searle (b. 1932) is direct, combative, and intellectually ambitious. His philosophy has made fundamental and lasting contributions to how we think about speech, consciousness, knowledge, truth, and the nature of social reality. Here, with remarkable clarity, a leading authority introduces students and generalists to those...
2001
Lawlessness and Economics
<p>How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In <i>Lawlessness and Economics</i>, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state.<br><br><br> In much of the w...
2007
Pessimism
<p>Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation or despair. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we ...
2009
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline
<p>What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In <i>Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline</i>, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy "something that counts as g...
2008
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
<p>Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance ...
2002
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 10
<p>Based on a comparison of early editions, manuscripts, and copies annotated by the poet himself, this edition provides a reliable text of Coleridge's last prose work, first published in 1830. Originally intended to influence public opinion on the Catholic Emancipation Bill of 1829, the work became a brief but brilliant synthesis of Coleridge's political and theological thought, whose influence e...
2015