Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula.... Læs mere
Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally... Læs mere
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation of Marsilio Ficino’s immense commentary on the works of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism.
In early modern Italy, a wave of Inquisition trials prosecuted radical dissenters for their claims that Adam and Eve had... Læs mere
Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, “vegetarian sects,” that... Læs mere
In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the... Læs mere
In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967–1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose forms, literary history, translation theory, and philosophical... Læs mere
John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures on John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John... Læs mere
In six wide-ranging lectures on art history, the problems of form, and his own career, celebrated twentieth-century activist-painter Ben Shahn explores the labor of artistic creation, the confines of formal instruction, and the realization of a genuine artistic voice.
The Ianua Indica (Indian Gateway) of Ignazio Arcamone S.J. (ca. 1615–1683) is the first comparative grammar of two South Asian vernaculars, Konkani and Marathi. This volume offers a... Læs mere
In 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography... Læs mere
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust’s In Search of... Læs mere