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The Morality of Consent
“This short but provocative volume… is a fitting testimony to the author’s extraordinary, though tragically brief, career as a constitutional scholar, lawyer and teacher. In just a hundred and a half literate pages, we...
The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination
The immense service that Langer’s careful, thoughtful, immensely intelligent and restrained study renders is that the esthetics of atrocity cease to be an exclusive domain of the victims. Many of his writers are not...
Agape
An Ethical Analysis
This study is the most comprehensive account to date of modern treatments of the love commandment. Gene Outka examines the literature on agape from Nygren’s Agape and Eros in 1930. Both Roman Catholic...
The Music of Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin was one of a few major composers who revolutionized musical style in the first decade of the twentieth century by eliminating key as a structural principle and by establishing a new use of dissonant...
The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Book 10, The Book of Cleanness
This book is an English translation of the Code of Maimonides. It contains the intricacies peculiar to the rules of cleanness and uncleanness: owing to their nonrational nature, these rules are unlike those of any other...
The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Book 9, The Book of Offerings
Ethics at the Edges of Life
Medical and Legal Intersections
The tremendous changes in society’s attitudes toward abortion, euthanasia, the right to die, and other related life-and-death issues are reflected in recent court decisions and in new legislation. This important book by...
The Resolution of Conflict
Constructive and Destructive Processes
Conflict is a natural and inevitable part of our personal and social lives. In this volume Morton Deutsch, the distinguished social psychologist, explores the factors that determine whether the outcome of conflict will be...
Presidential Impeachment
In this thorough and thoughtful examination of the constitutional issues involved in the impeachment of a president, Labovitz, a lawyer who served on the impeachment inquiry staff of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974,...
Private Property and the Constitution
A study of the uncertain constitutional foundations of private property in American law and a discussion of two vastly different methods by which courts may resolve the confusion.