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Talking with Sartre
Conversations and Debates
What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul...
Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander
The first major English translation of a masterful seriocomic theatrical work by one of the most prominent writers of the Soviet epochWalpurgis Night, by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is...
The Conservatives
Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History
An even-handed, comprehensive assessment of conservative thought in America, from the Constitutional Convention to the present This lively book traces the development of American conservatism from...
Hakluyt’s Promise
An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
The most comprehensive portrait yet of Richard Hakluyt, indefatigable promoter of English colonization in America Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the...
The Philosophers' Quarrel
Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
The dramatic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume, in the context of their grand intellectual quest to conquer the limits of human understanding. The rise and spectacular fall of the...
Squeezed
What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
How orange juice became a North American breakfast staple and what “100% pure orange juice” means today Close to three quarters of U.S. households buy orange juice. Its popularity crosses class, cultural...
Who Was Jacques Derrida?
An Intellectual Biography
Who Was Jacques Derrida? is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence, and his philosophical roots. It is also the first attempt to define his crucial...
The American Play
1787-2000
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of...
The Legacy of the Second World War
The master historian John Lukacs explores lasting questions and enigmas about World War II, its consequences, and its persistent legacy Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its...
John Henry Newman
The Challenge to Evangelical Religion
A provocative reappraisal of a pivotal figure, John Henry Newman also offers an important reconsideration of the religious and intellectual history of the nineteenth century. One of the most...