agents Althusser analysis of discourse analysis of ideology Anthony Giddens approach argument asymmetrical relations authors Cambridge claim Claude Lefort communicative action concept of ideology concerned constituted Cornelius Castoriadis critical...

In this third of five volumes tracing the history of Japanese literature through Mishima Yukio, Jin'ichi Konishi portrays the high medieval period. Here he continues to examine the influence of Chinese literature on Japanese writers, addressing in...

The Kaddish is considered by millions of Jews to be a special prayer one recites for the dead. It isn't. This book contains much new information as it traces the evolution of the Kaddish.

The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. In the depths of the 1940s and 1950s, when the...

From the beginning of his career, Alfred Hitchcock wanted to be considered an artist. Although his thrillers were immensely popular, and Hitchcock himself courted reviewers, he was, for many years, regarded as no more than a master craftsman. By the...

By treating the history of moral concepts as geological strata, Rosenthal discovered the archaeological method long before it became fashionable. The appeal of this book - in addition to its wryly delightful style - is to those for whom Hobbes and...

First Published in 1987. Presented as two sections, the first includes three surveys which aim to describe and comment on some of radial changes in the questions historians have been asking about the past and some of the new data, tools and methodology...

In this early autobiographical work, Dorothy Day offers the first account of her dramatic conversion. This concise and passionate work gives an account of Day's former comrades in the radical movement of the steps that led to her to embrace Christ and...

Product Details Paperback: 28 pages Publisher: Penguin Books; FEP Torn Out edition (August 6, 1985) Language: English ISBN-10: 0140081127 ISBN-13: 978-0140081121 Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.1 inches Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces Average Customer...

Evoking the richly diverse character and cultures of the European continent, a distinguished columnist present a series of country-by-country portraits that capture the essence and idiosyncracies of each nation and reveal the issues crucial to the...

Henri Bergson inquires into the nature of moral obligation, into the place of religion and the purpose it has served since primitive times, into static religion and its value in preserving man from the dangers of his own intelligence; into dynamic...