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Wordsworth and the Enlightenment
Nature, Man, and Society in the Experimental Poetry
This book provides a new context for understanding Wordsworth's major poetry by examining the poet's response to Enlightenment attitudes toward nature and society. Alan Bewell argues that at the core of Wordsworth's poetry is...
Karl Kraus
Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna
A fascinating study of the life and work of Karl Kraus, the Austrian satirist whose critiques of the mass media, the military-industrial complex, and technology running out of control have earned him a following...
Saadia Gaon
The Book of Beliefs and Opinions
Saadia Gaon, the great ninth century Jewish philosopher, was the father of both scientific biblical exegesis and Jewish philosophic theology. From his position as head of the great Talmudic academy in Sura, Babylonia,...
The National Security Constitution
Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair
Was the Iran-Contra affair caused by executive lawlessness or legislative folly? Or did it result instead from structural defects in our national security decision-making system? In this important new book, Harold Koh argues...
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called ...
American Silhouettes
Rhetorical Identities of the Founders
Franklin, John Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Marshall—all are familiar yet curiously distant American heroes, blurred by the similarities of their background and culture. In this engrossing...
Karaite Anthology
Excerpts from the Early Literature
The Karaites, a small Jewish sect that arose twelve centuries ago and still exists today, was at one time the most outspoken and productive schismatic division in Judaism. The Karaites contributed much to the Jewish...
Wayward Capitalists
Targets of the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Marxism and Democracy in Chile
From 1932 to the Fall of Allende
In this book Julio Faúndez traces the development of Chilean politics from 1932 to the overthrow of Allende in 1973, focusing in particular on the participation of Marxist parties in Chile’s democratic government. Relating...
Female Adolescence
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature
A sensitive, gracefully written exploration of the distinctiveness of the female adolescent experience. The author combines insights drawn from her clinical practice with informed analyses of familiar works of literature. Her...