Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Marlowe, Goethe, Joyce, Eliot, Mann, Bulgakov and Pasternak.
This book explores the close links between anti-Semitism and cultural pessimism and the relation between psychology and sociology. Other themes range from the history and theory of the state, to the misconception of language and power.
The century that began in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War was catastrophic
For Harry Redner, the phrase "beyond civilization" refers to the new and unprecedented condition the world is now entering‘specifically, the condition commonly known as globalization
This book provides a systematic study of how the epistemologically interesting features of contemporary science are to be understood. It argues that... Læs mere
A survey of the trajectory of research in literature, history, sociology, and economics over the past century, as... Læs mere