Humanities

In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the ...

Nietzsche read far more widely, and more actively, than he led us to believe. Reading was his most important intellectual stimulus: he lived a very...

Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the W...

Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the W...

This book challenges educators to envisage an education system which sees as its goal a more socially just world. It explores the question of how e...

Elizabethans saw eloquent language as the mark of the civilized gentleman. At the same time, they believed language to be able to harm, analogous t...

This book investigates the meanings of the notion of friendship in the Renaissance from two perspectives, philological and philosophical, by observ...

The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerlands finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence: learned, gracious, ...

What are the borders of risk? How is the perception of risk related to new technologies and digital changing? This book discusses these topics, mov...

This book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the i...

This volume collects chapters dedicated to finding affinities and disagreements between Marx and Wittgenstein. It aims at integrating different way...

The book explores one of the most important problems in Indian philosophical thought: the subject in its particular relation to the world. In what...

This book is devoted to investigating the relationships and correspondences that hold between the poetry of Wallace Stevens and philosophy. Stevens...

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a commun...

Grounded in the revolutionary Marxist view that theory becomes a material force when it has seized the masses, Teaching SpivakOtherwise: A Contrib...

Provocative and disconcerting, The False Past confronts what many generations hold near and dear about their memorials. What if everything we know ...

Voices from the Margins explores the particular emphasis that women writers of Troubles short fiction have placed on gender and the everyday, two a...

Humanists look up to Hellas as the cradle of European culture. The book spans nearly five centuries of a later epoch of this worthy tradition. Star...

Humanists look up to Hellas as the cradle of European culture. The book spans nearly five centuries of a later epoch of this worthy tradition. Star...

These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both de...