Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of... Læs mere
For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should... Læs mere
From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the century. It included tragic slaughter of child soldiers, use of chemical weapons, striking of civilian... Læs mere
Aldus Manutius was the most innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains all of his prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, translated for the... Læs mere
The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems—the individual’s effort to make sense of experience, to... Læs mere
The authors argue that corporate law’s rules and practices mimic contractual provisions that parties would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero... Læs mere
A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory—the... Læs mere
When this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from mythologizing. In it, Mack explores the relationship... Læs mere
Minuchin traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Having achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment, he now... Læs mere
The story of Heidegger’s life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.
Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music.