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Forms of Explanation
Rethinking the Questions in Social Theory
What makes one explanation better than another? How can we tell when an explanation has really answered our question? In a lively and readable discussion, Garfinkel argues that the key to understanding an...
Melodious Guile
Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
Demonstrating a poet’s imaginative ear and a critic’s range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the "melodious guile" with which poetry speaks to us. Through analysis of formal and rhetorical patterns in examples...
Radical Islam
Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, Enlarged Edition
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The Infection of Thomas De Quincey
A Psychopathology of Imperialism
Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia. The greater part of the fourteen...
Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime
Who were the members of the Russian ruling elite during the reign of the last Tsar before the Revolution? How did high-level politics operate in Imperial Russia's last years? In this highly original book, Dominic...
On Justice
An Essay in Jewish Philosophy
What is fair? How and when can punishment be legitimate? Is there recompense for human suffering? How can we understand ideas about immortality or an afterlife in the context of critical thinking on the human...
The Man Who Was Mark Twain
Images and Ideologies
“Americans have cherished and magnified versions of an idealized Mark Twain. We admire and are amused by the celebrity, who sold his pseudonym and his carefully composed face to advertise pipe tobacco, cigarettes,...
The Nature of Politics
This important and original book examines the nature of politics from a perspective cutting across conventional academic disciplines. Returning to the traditional emphasis on human nature as the foundation of...
Mexican Americans
Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960
A pioneering political and intellectual history of the Chicano leaders who emerged from the barrios of the Southwest between 1930 and 1960—Ignacio L. López, George I. Sanchez, Josefina Fierro de Bright, and others—and of...
The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace
Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century
European Jews achieved civil emancipation during the nineteenth century, becoming equal citizens with all the rights and responsibilities of their Gentile compatriots. This book explores for the first time the impact...