This book deals with representation in science, politics and art both in its historical... Læs mere
The century that began in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War was catastrophic
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.
Harry Redner's Aesthetic Life examines the arts - all the arts from the earliest Paleolithic painting to the latest post-Modern music. Its aim is to account for the nature of art in its historical totality and to assess the role it has played in human life throughout the ages.
Redner, a wide ranging Australian academic who spend most of his career at Monash University, considers the loss of... Læs mere
This book provides a systematic study of how the epistemologically interesting features of contemporary science are to be understood. It argues that... Læs mere
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
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.
A survey of the trajectory of research in literature, history, sociology, and economics over the past century, as... Læs mere
A politically oriented study of the thought of the founders of the main schools of contemporary... Læs mere
Ethical Life sets out to act as a guide for those of us who want to better understand ethics. It offers answers to the two simplest and yet most difficult questions facing individuals who have fallen into the perplexities of contemporary life: Why be ethical, and how?