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Presents an essay on the Nietzsche's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. This book offers a conversation with Nietzsche rather than a consideration of the secondary literature.
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Makes available for the generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's "Myth of the Birth of the Hero" and Lord Raglan's "The Hero". In his introduction... Læs mere
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This book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the "moral sciences": that there are propositions, in morals and... Læs mere
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A comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, this title explores the origins and... Læs mere
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Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, this work explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded... Læs mere
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Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society.
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Offers the reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world. By mapping the... Læs mere
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The ideology of the American dream - the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort - is the... Læs mere
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Provides modern business cycle theory that starts with the view that growth and fluctuations are not distinct phenomena to be studied separately - and that business cycles result from shocks (such as the availability of new technologies), which regularly affect most economies.
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Why do we hate Milton's God? The author reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense.
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Provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late... Læs mere
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Offers a historical and sociological interpretation of classical Athens centered on the notion of greed. Integrating ancient philosophy, poetry, and history, and... Læs mere