The Reinterpretation Of American Literature Some Contributions Toward The Understanding Of Its Historical Development Edited For The American Literature Group Of The Modern Language Association Pref By Robert P Falk
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Author | : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research |
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Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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Author | : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research |
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Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
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Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author | : Norman Foerster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Terrence W. Deacon |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1998-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393343022 |
"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
Author | : Herbert Gintis |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262072526 |
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests presents an innovative synthesis of research in different disciplines to argue that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence of "strong reciprocators" in a social group. Presenting an overview of research in economics, anthropology, evolutionary and human biology, social psychology, and sociology, the book deals with both the theoretical foundations and the policy implications of this explanation for cooperation. Chapter authors in the remaining parts of the book discuss the behavioral ecology of cooperation in humans and nonhuman primates, modeling and testing strong reciprocity in economic scenarios, and reciprocity and social policy. The evidence for strong reciprocity in the book includes experiments using the famous Ultimatum Game (in which two players must agree on how to split a certain amount of money or they both get nothing.)
Author | : Bram Gieben |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1993-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780745609607 |
Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political, economic, social and cultural life which characterize modern societies, from their origins in early modern Europe to the nineteenth century. It examines the roots of modern knowledge and the birth of the social sciences in the Enlightenment, and analyses the impact on the emerging identity of 'the West' of its encounters through exploration, trade, conquest and colonization, with 'other civilizations'. Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges and also to readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from a broad range of classical writers (Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Freud, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and contemporary thinkers (Michael Mann, E.P. Thompson, Edward Said) are integrated in each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.
Author | : Virginia Held |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0195180992 |
The author assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. Held examines what we mean by care and focuses on caring relationships. She also looks at the potential of care for dealing with social issues and global problems.
Author | : Samuel Moyn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674256522 |
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.