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The Conscription Society
Administered Mass Organizations
The ability to organize millions of people for political purposes is a potent and relatively recent weapon in the struggle for power. Political scientists have studied two types of mass organization, the political party and...
Diderot on Art, Volume I
The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting
The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau...
Christianity and Classical Culture
The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism
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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community
Arion`s Leap
Norma Thompson opens a new angle of political vision in this imaginative and engaging interpretation of Herodotus' History. She claims for the "father of history" a position in the canon of political thought, finding...
Delusions of Everyday Life
We are all more primitive and irrational than we care to acknowledge, says Dr. Leonard Shengold in this profound and eloquent book. We all suffer to some degree from delusions—vestiges of infantile mental functioning that...
Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity
A Historical Perspective on Persistent Issues
In this book, an eminent educational historian examines some important aspects of American schooling over the past centuries, illuminating the relation between education and other broad changes in American society and...
The Poetics of Translation
History, Theory, Practice
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Architecture and the Text
The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi
In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periods—one...
Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern
In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions about understanding and...
The Archaeology of Animals
In this pioneering work, Simon J. M. Davis presents a broad overview of the new science of zooarchaeology—the analysis of fossil remains of animals—explaining its methods and showing how it helps the archaeologist interpret a...