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George Berkeley in America
In 1728 George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher and Anglican priest, came to America in the hope of founding a university in Bermuda and converting the Indians. He never reached Bermuda, where within a few years no Indians...
Symbol, Myth, and Culture
Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer, 1935-1945
The papers in this volume of Ernst Cassirer’s unpublished works give insight into the major issues that engaged Cassirer’s interest between 1935 and 1945. The book begins with his inaugural address at the University of...
Marx’s Social Critique of Culture
This study sheds new light on Marx’s achievement by presenting a critical reading of his interpretation of culture. Dupré discusses the relation of Marx to previous philosophers, especially Hegel; the stages of development...
A Revolution in Commerce
The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France
This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive account of the juridiction consulaire, or Merchant Court, of eighteenth-century Paris. Drawing on extensive archival research, Amalia D...
Alfred Kazin
A Biography
The first biography of Alfred Kazin–inveterate New Yorker, autobiographer, and perhaps the last great man of American letters in the tradition of Edmund Wilson Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish...
Yale French Studies, Number 116/117
Turns to the Right?
Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr, Special Editors Table of Contents Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr: “Turns to the Right?” François Noudelmann: ...
Sex and the Office
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans’ attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the...
Yale French Studies, Number 113
French Education: Fifty Years Later
Editors’ PrefaceI. ChronologyII. Historical PerspectivesViolaine Houdart-MérotLiterary Education in the Lycée: Crises, Continuity, and Upheaval since 1880
Yale French Studies, Number 112
The Transparency of the Text: Contemporary Writing for the Stage
Josette Féral & Donia Mounsef Editors' Preface: The Transparency of the Text Part I: Avant and Après GardeTom Bishop Whatever Happened to the Avant...
Free Speech and Human Dignity
Debates over hate speech, pornography, and other sorts of controversial speech raise issues that go to the core of the First Amendment. Supporters of regulation argue that these forms of expression cause serious...