1443 results for '"Fried, Johannes'

What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams...

The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history A New Yorker "Best Book of 2024" Selection ...

A long-overdue biography of John Nash, a major British artist of the twentieth century, tracing his connections, affinities, and influences.Having created some of the most memorable paintings of the...

Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist democracies have been mostly propounded from one of three major theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a particular aspect of...

The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern timesFrom the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the...

In this exceptional study, the author goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul Rée, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals — all three advancing the critique of Christian morality...

The first visual chronicle of a little-known chapter in the career of Henri Cartier-Bresson—one of the great photographers of the twentieth century.In December 1948, Henri Cartier-Bresson traveled to...

Foregrounding the body, this remarkable collective work explores the sexualization of women s bodies, charting the complex interplay of social, political and cultural forces which produce a normative...

From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum mechanics.First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has...

The Second Edition of A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests incorporates the major developments in neuropyschology and new research findings about brain-behavior relations in the 1990s. It has...

Examines the rise of West Germany's Green Party and discusses the impact of the Greens on European political culture and their relevance to America's future

In this book a scientist and a literary critic combine their talents in order to assess the impact of the revolution in physical theory on literature. How did quantum theory and the general theory of...