People and Places is a delightful collection of 22 articles and reviews written by Richard Cobb over the past ten years. The selections-- many appearing here for the first time--include recollections of old university friends, essays on authors and...

Mary Gluck introduces us to a Lukács we have never met. Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine.Georg Lukács claimed in later life that...

Im Februar 1987, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod, hielt Jacob Taubes vor einer kleinen Schar von Zuhörern 4 Paulus- Vorlesungen, die er als sein geistiges Vermächtnis auffaßte. Darin betritt er das Feld der Paulus-Forschung, eine Domäne der christlichen...

Describes the relations of the great European powers when Europe was still the centre of the world.

coleridge, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, is a vivid and unforgettable portrait that illuminates the true genius of the author of "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Holmes draws readers into the labyrinthine complications...

Deft analyses of select masterpieces from the vocal literature by this master of musical analysis.

An attempt to explain rationally the shifting styles of art, from antiquity to the present, employing modern concepts of visual perception, information theory, and learning.

The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as...

2006 Exhibition of new work at Gagosian Galllery in 2006. Essays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George. Empiricist, alchemist, sage, and prankster, Friedman invents startling works of art by taking very ordinary materials -...

Book by Kermode, Frank

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By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been surveyed by an unprecedented series of major works on literature, music, and painting of which the author or this book provides a rich and comprehensive analysis. Originally published in 1970. The...

Edited By Miloš Nicolić. English Publication Of Some Of The Papers Prepared For The 10th Round Table Of The International Conference Socialism In The World To Be Held In Cavtat October 21 To 26, 1985. Includes Bibliographical References.

Based on thesis. Bibliography: p. 210-229.

The description for this book, The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, will be forthcoming.

The description for this book, Marvell and the Civic Crown, will be forthcoming.

Originally published in 1976, Clausewitz and the State presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's...

A richly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world.The twentieth century produced a galaxy of extraordinary Jewish historians. Gershom Scholem stands out among them for the richness and power of his historical...

George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in both social and personal terms, signaled a shift...

This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral...