Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 12 träffar
Wonder Confronts Certainty
A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age …
Minds Wide Shut
A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the …
Enemies from the East?
As cultural conflicts roil the world, the idea of a ""clash of civilizations"" has lately taken hold, with commentators from both East and West weighing the religious and political …
Shakespeare and the Nature of Love
The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical …
Optical Play
Julia Bekman Chadaga’s ambitious study posits that glass - in its uses as a material and as captured in culture - is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from …
Prosaics and Other Provocations
Gary Saul Morson’s ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on “prosaics” (his coinage) argues that …
Cents and Sensibility
A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent …
Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature
Robert Louis Jackson, (the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University), is one of the most prominent American Slavists in the field today. His …
Esther Regina
Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the ""Book of Esther"" in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book's flagrant displays of hatred, deceit, violence, and the …
Of Death and Dominion
Death is the opposite not of life, but of power. And as such, Mohammed Bamyeh argues in this original work, death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of …
Testimony After Catastrophe
Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies, newspapers, documentaries, …
The Fabulous Future?
Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and …