The Gravity of Thought (Philosophy and Literary Theory)

Jean-Luc Nancy

Humanity Books

The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery

Analyzes the reasons for the rise and fall of Great Britain as a predominant maritime nation in the period from the Tudors to the present day.

History

Paul M. Kennedy

Military

The Prophet's Children

The Prophet’s Children is a moving story of a life lived on the American Left, written by one of its leading figures—a personal narrative told with a critical spirit, full of the flavor of what being part of the Far Left is really like. Spanning three decades—from the 1950s to the 1970s—and covering political life in Britain, France, and Mexico as well as the United States, the author’s political journey brought him into intimate contact with the major trends and personalities within American Trotskyism and its other forms throughout the world, enabling him to present a portrait of a distinct movement that has so far been largely neglected by historians of the Left.

Wohlforth, Tim

Americas

The Politics of the Reformation in Germany: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) of Strasbourg

Politics & Social Sciences

Brady, Thomas A.

Politics & Government

The relationship of Marxism to the "Jewish Question" is far more complex than many have assumed. Despite the Jewish backgrounds of several Marxists (including Marx himself), many showed a sense of indifference toward a sense of "Jewishness." Yet an increasingly virulent anti-Semitism - affecting sections of the working class and culminating in the Holocaust and in the growing strength of Zionism - became a problem that numerous Marxist thinkers were compelled to consider.In addition to examining the works of Marx, Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky, Ber Borokhov, Abram Leon, and figures associated with the Frankfurt School, Traverso also investigates the actual policies in the socialist and communist movements and sensitively explores the unique history of the Jewish workers' movement in various countries.

The Marxists and the Jewish Question: The History of a Debate (Revolutionary Studies)

Traverso, Enzo

Since its first publication in 1980, Professor Kennedy's masterly account of the rivalry between Great Britain and Germany in the period leading to the First World War has established itself as the definitive work on the subject.Over ten years of research in more than sixty archives in Britain and Germany culminated in this full-scale, meticulous analysis. The result reaches far beyond a diplomatic narrative of relations between the two countries. It concerns itself with a thorough comparison of the two societies, their political cultures, economies, party politics, courts, the role of the press and pressure groups, and other factors. The work therefore contributes to the larger debate on the nature of foreign policy, as well as to the specific controversies over the British-German antagonisms that eventually led to war.

The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914

Kennedy, Paul M.

Europe

Attempts to unlock the Climacus section of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous literature. This book offers a sustained analysis of the key concepts discussed in the works: existence and the ethical, truth and subjectivity, indirect communication, guilt and suffering, irony and humour, reason and paradox, and faith and history.

Kierkegaard's Fragments and Postscript

Evans, C. Stephen

Dead Reckonings: Ideas, Interests, and Politics in the Information Age

In periods of rapid change, social scientists are nearly as much "at sea" as anyone else. These "dead reckonings" accordingly try to chart a course through an arena where familiar landmarks are altered or absent. Dead Reckonings is aimed at an audience of political scientists and social scientists but should interest many nonspecialists who are concerned with these broad social issues. Therefore, the book investigates how scientific ideas interact with material circumstances and social ideologies to influence politics. It addresses debates in both the philosophy of science and in the field of political science; examines the socio-economic impact of foreign high technology investment upon "less developed" host states; the difficulties of reconciling the microelectronics revolution with the social needs in advances industrial nations; the prudent supervision of the export of sensitive nuclear fuels and facilities; the role that technology as an "independent variable" plays in the politics of trade policy, especially in the United States, the limits of rational choice analysis in the peace process in Northern Ireland, and a radical reconsideration of the :national-international connect" in political science and its implications for the porous border between the subdisciplines of international relations and comparative politics. The book concludes with a pair of short essays dealing with ideological antics within television and cinema.

Jacobsen, John Kurt

Social Sciences

Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence Policy in the Era of the Two World Wars

Howard, Michael Eliot

These essays explore and analyze issues of contemporary cultural concern: science, rationality, sex, violence, representation, ethics, politics, and spirituality. Although not always explicit, the perspective elaborated in and through them draws on an extensive knowledge of and familiarity with twentieth-century European philosophy, especially the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the ethical and political writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, and the deconstructive project of Jacques Derrida.

Why Althusser Killed His Wife

Finn, Geraldine

Philosophy

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