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Book SynopsisCritics have maintained that John Rawls's theory of justice is unrealistic and undemocratic. Andrius Gališanka's incisive intellectual biography argues that in misunderstanding the origins and development of Rawls's argument, previous narratives fail to explain the novelty of his philosophical approach and so misunderstand his political vision.Trade ReviewGališanka tracks the development of Rawls’s philosophical work as it evolved from his early inquiries into theology and the roots of evil to his secular justification for distributive justice…Leaves us with a compelling account of Rawls’s evolution and reminds us how philosophically rigorous the justification of Rawlsian high liberalism is. -- Seyla Benhabib * The Nation *This book is a pathbreaking achievement. Drawing extensively on John Rawls’s private papers and integrating them expertly with the published writings, Andrius Gališanka develops a new and striking account of Rawls’s intellectual development from his college years to the publication of A Theory of Justice. It is certain to change our understanding of the core motivations and ultimate aims of one of the greatest political philosophers of all time. -- Charles Larmore, Brown UniversityDrawing on important new archival materials, Andrius Gališanka has written a landmark study of one of the giants of twentieth-century political philosophy. Powerfully highlighted by the author’s deep research and judicious analysis, this will be a crucial volume for intellectual historians, political theorists, and philosophers who engage with Rawls, and of broad interest to those seeking to understand the origins and implications of his theory of justice. -- Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins UniversityJohn Rawls’s influence on moral and political philosophy is difficult to overstate. His books and articles have been intensely studied since the appearance of A Theory of Justice in 1971. But even those familiar with Rawls’s work may know little about how painstakingly he rehearsed his arguments prior to publication. Andrius Gališanka presents a careful study of everything Rawls wrote in the thirty years leading up to A Theory of Justice, with findings welcome even by Rawls experts. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the intellectual development of the twentieth century’s most important moral and political thinker. -- Paul Weithman, University of Notre DameThis compelling intellectual biography of John Rawls—which makes extensive use of the philosopher’s archives—has a great many virtues. Andrius Gališanka documents how Rawls’s commitment to respect for persons originating from his brand of Protestantism, in addition to his persistent search for what follows from considered judgments, made possible a classic of our time. -- Samuel Moyn, Yale UniversityScholars of the work of liberal academic political theorist John Rawls will find this book highly useful. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThis definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his LyceumTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014 "Gathering, distilling, and analyzing all the evidence and previous scholarship, Carlo Natali, one of the world's leading Aristotle scholars, provides a masterful synthesis that is accessible to students yet filled with evidence and original interpretations that specialists will find informative and provocative."--World Book Industry "Natali assembles all of the relevant ancient sources for the life of Aristotle and offers judicious assessments of their reliability and significance. The result, when it comes to the life of Aristotle, is that Natali's work is now the standard biography... This book both satisfies the highest standards of scholarship and is accessible to any intelligent readers. Every college and university library should have it."--Choice "Having read this book, I now have a much better grasp of the issues involved in ancient biography as it applies to Aristotle and other Peripatetics, and of what we know and we do not know (and knowing what we do not know is a kind of knowledge."--Robert Mayhew, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and ScienceTable of ContentsPreface (2013) - p. vii Introduction (1990) - p. 1 Chapter One - The Biography of Aristotle: Facts, Hypotheses, Conjectures - p. 5 *1. Many Facts, Not All of Equal Interest - p. 5 *2. Stagira - p. 6 *3. A Family of Notables - p. 8 *4. A Provincial Pupil - p. 17 *5. A Sudden Interruption - p. 31 *6. At the Courts of Princes and Kings - p. 32 *6.1. Atarneus - p. 32 *6.2. Macedonia - p. 42 *7. The Adventure of Callisthenes - p. 52 *8. Athens Revisited - p. 55 *9. Trial and Flight - p. 60 *10. From Traditional Customs, a New Model - p. 64 Chapter Two - Institutional Aspects of the School of Aristotle - p. 72 *1. The Three Conditions of the Theoretical Life in Aristotle - p. 72 *2. The Organization of Theoria: The Nature and Organization of the Philosophical Schools - p. 77 *3. The Organization of Theoria: Philosophical Schools and Permanent Institutions - p. 83 *4. Subsequent Events - p. 90 Chapter Three - Internal Organization of the School of Aristotle - p. 96 *1. The Collections of Books - p. 96 *2. Methods of Gathering and Interpreting Information - p. 104 *3. Teaching Supports and Instruments of Research - p. 113 *4. Teaching While Strolling - p. 117 Chapter Four - Studies of Aristotle's Biography from Zeller to the Present Day - p. 120 *1. Sources of Aristotle's Biography - p. 120 *1.1. Texts of Aristotle - p. 120 *1.2. Official Documents - p. 124 *1.3. Ancient Biographies of Aristotle - p. 125 *1.4. The Testimonia of Ancient Authors - p. 130 *2. Images of Aristotle from the Nineteenth Century to the Present - p. 135 Postscript (2012) - p. 145 Notes to: ch. 1 - p. 153; ch. 2 - p. 170; ch. 3 - p. 175; ch. 4 - p. 177 Index of Sources - p. 181 i) epigraphy - p. 181; ii) papyri - p. 181; iii) ancient authors -p. 181; iv) ancient biographies of Aristotle - p. 193; v) modern collections of evidence - p. 194 Bibliographical Index - p. 196 Index of Persons and Places - p. 211

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Book SynopsisProvides a look at how Spinoza went from being one of Judaism's most notorious outcasts to one of its most celebrated, if still highly controversial, cultural icons, and a powerful and protean symbol of the first modern secular Jew. This book chronicles Spinoza's posthumous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2012 Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research Finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in History "We have long needed a thorough and careful study of the various ways in which Spinoza has been appropriated by Jewish causes and movements. Daniel Schwartz's welcome book takes a close look for the first time at what the author calls 'the rehabilitation of Spinoza in Jewish culture.'"--Steven Nadler, Times Literary Supplement "Whether Baruch Spinoza was 'the first modern Jew,' as the title of this outstanding volume suggests, has been a subject of continuing debate... Schwartz displays admirable versatility in tracing the idolizations, disputes, and ambivalences evoked by Spinoza in Germany (Moses Mendelssohn and Berthold Auerbach) and eastern Europe (Salomon Rubin), within Zionism (Yosef Klausner), and in Yiddish literature (Isaac Bashevis Singer)... Essential."--M. A. Meyer, Choice "[P]assionate arguments, of the kind now richly documented by Schwartz, about Spinoza's Jewishness and his relevance to our times, still enrich and enrage ... and probably will continue to do so--without end."--Allan Nadler, Forward.com "This is the first full-scale history of Spinoza's reception among Jews... [I]t clearly demonstrates how this excluded philosopher could be viewed as religious or secular, as more Baruch or more Benedict, but almost necessarily as a touchstone in defining Jewish identity in the modern age."--Choice "With extensive and helpful notes, an index and a bibliography, this work is highly recommended for all academic collections that deal with Jews and Judaism in the modern age."--Marion M. Stein, Classical World "Schwartz has written a superb study that not only presents Spinoza as a thinker who fits uneasily into the modernist categories of 'religious' and 'secular': he has also composed a daring challenge to the popular interpretation of the modern age as a purely secular affair that left religion behind over 300 years ago."--Grant Havers, European LegacyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Note on Translations and Romanization xvii Introduction 1 Spinoza's Jewish Modernities Chapter 1: Ex-Jew, Eternal Jew: 15 Early Representations of the Jewish Spinoza Chapter 2: Refining Spinoza: 35 Moses Mendelssohn's Response to the Amsterdam Heretic Chapter 3: The First Modern Jew: 55 Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the Beginnings of an Image Chapter 4: A Rebel against the Past, A Revealer of Secrets: 81 Salomon Rubin and the East European Maskilic Spinoza Chapter 5: From the Heights of Mount Scopus: 113 Yosef Klausner and the Zionist Rehabilitation of Spinoza Chapter 6: Farewell, Spinoza: 155 I. B. Singer and the Tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist Epilogue: 189 Spinoza Redivivus in the Twenty-First Century Notes 203 Bibliography 247 Index 265

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Book SynopsisMax Weber is widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences. This book provides details about Weber's visit to the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne - what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why, and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought on immigration, capitalism, science, and culture.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association "In 1904, shortly after emerging from severe psychological illness and between the two essays that made up The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber traveled with his wife, Marianne, to the U.S., where he would deliver a paper at the Congress of Arts and Science in St. Louis. Drawing from a rich variety of archival material, Scaff has written the definitive story of that trip."--Choice "Max Weber in America ranks among the very best interpretations of Max Weber's sociology."--Bryan S. Turner, American Journal of Sociology "Scaff has undertaken a prodigious amount of archival research in tracing Weber's path through the United States, and it is difficult to conceive of what would comprise a more definitive examination of this period in Weber's life and work."--John G. Gunnell, Journal of American History "This close-grained reading of Weber's American trip and the American dissemination of his writings sheds illuminating light on both... Weber scholars will find Scaff's meticulous treatment of the translation of Weber's texts extremely useful."--Daniel Rodgers, H-Net Reviews "Given its scale, the uniqueness of its insights and the relentless industry displayed, this is a work of scholarship which is most unlikely to be superseded. The study comes at Weber from an unexpected angle and adds much to the understanding of this multifaceted giant founder of sociology."--Kieran Flanagan, Canadian Journal of Sociology "[A] readable intellectual biography of a major work in social science as well as a fascinating discussion of the politics and personalities behind what seems ... an inevitable and unalterable stand alone work. Those unfamiliar with Weber may flounder at first, but the anecdotes about the various people and places should hold the reader until the rhythm of the work becomes comfortable and the ideas fall into place. A well developed and insightful presentation should maintain Scaff's status as a leading Weber scholar."--John Barnhill, 49th Parallel "[T]his is an extraordinary work of dedicated research, performed by a scholar who came to the task with genuine Weberian instincts. Scaff treats his subject with an empathy, sobriety and fairness that are a model to social and political scientists. Admittedly, not many in our ranks could approach Weber's heights of scholarly innovation, because, as Scaff quietly reminds us, he saw further and deeper into American society than most native born or foreign researchers. Max Weber in America is a tribute to a scholar who built his social theory on scientific notions of objectivity and moral impulses of decency."--Irving Louis Horowitz, European Legacy "Scaff provides such a wealth of information that at times the book seems more about turn of the century America than about Weber. Scaff also devotes a considerable amount of attention to Marianne and her interest in women's rights. As a consequence, Max Weber sometimes seems to disappear from view. This might seem to be a criticism, but Scaff's ability to discuss such a wide range of issues is so good and his focus on Marianne is justly warranted, that this is no drawback to his book."--Christopher Adair-Toteff, Sociology "Scaff's book is fascinating reading. Its scrupulous description of Weber's background and life events and his analysis of Weber's reception in the American universities and scholarship combine expertise and insight. It covers a relatively unknown episode in Weber's life with an excellent and thorough research."--Simonetta Piccone Stella, SociologicaTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix PREFACE xi INTRODUCTION 1 PART 1: THE AMERICAN JOURNEY CHAPTER ONE: Thoughts about America 11 Traveling to Progressive America 11 New Horizons of Thought 16 A "Spiritualistic" Construction of the Modern Economy? 20 CHAPTER TWO: The Land of Immigrants 25 Arriving in New York 25 Church and Sect, Status and Class 29 Settlements and Urban Space 36 CHAPTER THREE: Capitalism 39 The City as Phantasmagoria 40 Hull House, the Stockyards, and the Working Class 43 Character as Social Capital 48 CHAPTER FOUR: Science and World Culture 54 The St. Louis Congress: Unity of the Sciences? 54 The Last Time for a Free and Great Development: American Exceptionalism? 60 The Politics of Art 66 Gender, Education, and Authority 69 CHAPTER FIVE: Remnants of Romanticism 73 The Lure of the Frontier 74 The Problems of Indian Territory 82 Nature, Traditionalism, and the New World 90 The Signifi cance of the Frontier 95 CHAPTER SIX: The Color Line 98 Du Bois and the Study of Race 100 The Lessons of Tuskegee 108 Race and Ethnicity, Class and Caste 112 CHAPTER SEVEN: Different Ways of Life 117 Colonial Children 117 Nothing Remains except Eternal Change 119 Ecological Interlude 127 Inner Life and Public World 129 The Cool Objectivity of Sociation 133 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Protestant Ethic 137 Spirit and World 139 William James and His Circle 146 Ideas and Experience 151 CHAPTER NINE: American Modernity 161 Strange Contradictions 164 Becoming American 168 Cultural Pluralism 174 TEN Interpretation of the Experience 181 The Discourse about America 182 A Way Out of the Iron Cage? 185 America in Weber's Work 191 PART 2: THE WORK IN AMERICA CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Discovery of the Author 197 Author and Audience 197 Networks of Scholars 198 Translation History 201 The Disciplines 206 CHAPTER TWELVE: The Creation of the Sacred Text 211 An American in Heidelberg 213 Parsons Translates The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 217 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Invention of the Theory 229 Gerth and Mills Publish a Weber "Source Book" 229 Parsons's "Theory of Social and Economic Organization" 233 Weber among the Emigres 238 Weberian Sociology and Social Theory 244 Weber beyond Weberian Sociology 249 APPENDIX 1: Max and Marianne Weber's Itinerary for the American Journey in 1904 253 APPENDIX 2: Max Weber, Selected Correspondence with American Colleagues, 1904-5 257 ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS CONSULTED 267 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 269 INDEX 305

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Book SynopsisExplains how and why Margaret Mead became the best-known anthropologist and female public intellectual in twentieth-century America. Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, this title explores the ways in which Mead became an American cultural heroine.Trade Review"Lutkehaus provides a fair and fascinating account of her multifaceted subject, making this as intriguing and thought-provoking a biography as one could wish for."--Guy Cook, Times Higher Education "Lutkehaus effectively and perceptively examines Mead's impact (both subtle and overt) on anthropology and American popular culture from the 1928 publication of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, to the present day. With its fresh approach, this work is a valuable addition to the body of literature on Mead. Highly recommended for anthropology and popular culture collections in academic and large public libraries."--Elizabeth Salt, Library Journal "[Nancy C. Lutkehaus has] written an illuminating book--more a sociohistorical portrait than a birth-to-death biography--that examines how Margaret Mead became an American icon."--Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History "In 1972, college student Lutkehaus worked a year for Margaret Mead. Experiencing the variety of Mead's roles as a mature anthropologist herself, she decided to analyze that best-known U.S. anthropologist. Her book presents Mead as American icon, modern woman, anthropologist, woman scientist, celebrity, and posthumous public anthropologist."--A.B. Kehoe, Choice "For those interested in the history of science, the nature of celebrity and fame, and the roles of women in anthropology, Lutkehaus's volume is a welcome and important addition to our understanding of the place of professions and noteworthy professionals in American society and culture."--Nancy J. Parezo, American Historical Review "Lutkehaus's engagingly written study of the iconic status of Margaret Mead in America is indispensable for thinking about the relationship between public intellectual academics and broader cultural trends."--Neil Mclaughlin, Contexts "This book is perfectly focused, richly researched, filled with incidents and evidence and insightful interviews, and written as a story that certainly held this reader. It is a treasure, full of history and insights... I think Mead would have liked this solidly researched and convincingly interpreted book, and I think she deserved it. I think she would think that she chose well when she chose Lutkehaus as her assistant half a century ago."--Dorothy K. Billings, Current Anthropology "In this wonderfully illustrated book, Lutkehaus ... carries off the narrative and the analysis of Mead's 'iconicity' with learning, clarity, and panache."--Howard Brick, Museum Anthropology Review "This meticulously researched book makes a significant contribution to the history of twentieth century American liberal thought and public opinion... The book is a great read, entertaining as well as informative. It makes skilful and pointed use of photographs, advertisements, illustrations and cartoons to amplify its subject."--Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea, Pacific Affairs "For readers interested in scientists as public intellectuals, celebrities, popularizers, social activists, and academic superstars, Lutkehaus's book offers an important refinement of a discussion begun in Rae Goodell's The Visible Scientists."--Virginia Yans, ISISTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Mead as American Icon 1 Chapter 1. Mead as Modern Woman 25 Chapter 2. Images of the Mature Mead 58 Chapter 3. Mead as Anthropologist: "Sex in the South Seas" 83 Chapter 4. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Study Cannibals" 113 Chapter 5. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Find Out How Girls Learn to Be Girls" 133 Chapter 6. Mead and the Image of the Anthropologist 151 Chapter 7. Mead as Scientist 165 Chapter 8. Mead as Public Intellectual and Celebrity 205 Chapter 9. The Posthumous Mead, or Mead, the Public Anthropologist 238 Abbreviations of Archival Sources 265 Notes 267 Bibliography 331 Index 361

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Book SynopsisBrings together some of the author's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays. This title offers an account of his first trip to India, which includes unforgettable vignettes of encounters with strangers and reflections on poverty and begging. It reveals a personal side of one of the influential philosophers of our time.Trade Review"Finding Oneself in the Other works primarily as a memorial to Gerald Allan Cohen, the man, and not his ideas. Both deserve to be remembered. And so the second volume in this trilogy is worth reading, albeit for different reasons than the first."--Peter Stone, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books "The essays are a joy to read--they are fun, engaging and insightful--and they provide a fascinating perspective on Cohen's philosophical development, on the intellectual context in which he was active, and on the way in which he viewed and experienced the world. Accordingly, they will be of interest not just to those working in moral and political philosophy but to a much broader audience."--Ralf Bader, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Cohen renders the subject of linguistic morality accessible through a refreshing admixture of humor and diligent explication... Finding Oneself is at once edifying and sincere."--Ross Mittiga, Political Studies Review "Engaging, perceptive, and empathetic, these writings reveal a more personal side of one of the most influential philosophers of our time."--World Book Industry "Finding Oneself in the Other is ideal for philosophers and non-philosophers alike... [It] is a valuable asset."--Eugene Baron, Ethical PerspectivesTable of ContentsEditor's Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Isaiah's Marx, and Mine 1 Chapter 2 Prague Preamble to "Why Not Socialism?" 16 Chapter 3 A Black and White Issue 20 Chapter 4 Two Weeks in India 26 Chapter 5 Complete Bullshit 94 Chapter 6 Casting the First Stone: Who Can, and Who Can't, Condemn the Terrorists? 115 Chapter 7 Ways of Silencing Critics 134 Chapter 8 Rescuing Conservatism: A Defense of Existing Value (All Souls version) 143 Chapter 9 Valedictory Lecture: My Philosophical Development(and impressions of philosophers whom I met along the way) 175 Chapter 10 Notes on Regarding People as Equals 193 Chapter 11 One Kind of Spirituality: Come Back, Feuerbach, All Is Forgiven! 201 Works Cited 209 Index 213

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Book SynopsisThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the author of The Prince--Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the cTrade Review"Sensible and useful... [Vivanti] sets forth the greatness of Machiavelli, not as a figure of his time, the Renaissance, but as a founder of modernity."--Harvey C. Mansfield, Wall Street Journal "Students well versed in the classics, the historian's vast writings and medieval history will most enjoy this academic biography."--Kirkus Reviews "[T]his graceful and informative biography should win many readers and is a welcome addition to Machiavelli scholarship... [R]ecommended for all scholarly collections."--Library Journal "Paints a complex picture of the circumstances that shaped the man whose name became synonymous with political cunning."--Karl Kunkel, ForeWord Reviews "[E]xcellent, and accessible to anyone interested in finding out more about Machiavelli."--Jonathan Powell, Prospect "Vivanti supplies a fascinating, concise guide to Machiavelli's life and work... [W]ell worth reading."--Joanna Kavenna, Spectator "[I]nformative and ... level-headed."--Keith Miller, Telegraph "Vivanti offers a comprehensive analysis of the thought of Machiavelli situated against the backdrop of political and biographical developments in the early 16th century... Few writers possess better qualifications to write this study."--Choice "Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography will appeal to a wide audience, since the style is easy-to-read and the content broad but focused. Anyone interested in this period of history (15th and 16th century Europe) or political philosophy will find Vivanti's work a useful guide and a stimulating read."--Economics and Philosophy Blogspot "Corrado Vivanti's learned intellectual biography reinforces [an] image of Machiavelli as a misunderstood forerunner of the Italian Risorgimento, calling for the redemption of Italian republicanism four centuries before the final reunification of the Italian states."--Michael Ignatieff, The Atlantic "Corrado Vivanti's intellectual biography is a masterful piece of scholarly writing and a fine corollary to the author's long commitment to the world of Machiavelli studies... [T]his translation of Vivanti's study nicely displays the liveliness and intensity of Machiavelli's thought in the context of a changing European world... Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography [is] a work for posterity."--Mauricio Suchowlansky, Renaissance and Reformation "[A] fine exposition of Machiavelli's life and works."--Vickie B. Sullivan, The Historian "A remarkable contribution to the English-language literature on the thought and life of the Florentine secretary. Vivanti is the editor and annotator of the three volume complete works of Machiavelli, Opere (Milan 1997-2005). An outgrowth of this earlier work, it weaves into a seamless narrative the notes, commentary and critical introductions that Vivanti brought to the Opere."--Bendetto Fontana, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface vii Part I. The Florentine Secretary 1 1. A Shadowy Period: The First Half of His Life 3 2. The Relationship with Savonarola 7 3. The Activity in the Chancery 11 4. The Correspondence with Functionaries of the Domain 19 5. Diplomatic Activity 24 6. The Experience of the Early Missions 28 7. Changes of Fortune and the Ghiribizzi al Soderino 36 8. The Florentine Ordinance 41 9. The Venetian Defeat and the Reconquest of Pisa 51 10. The End of the Republic and the Return of the Medici 58 Part II. Exile in His Homeland 69 11. The Confinement at Sant'Andrea 71 12. "I have composed a little work On Princedoms" 76 13. The "Myth" of The Prince 85 14. Frequenting the Orti Oricellari 103 15. An Original Comment on Livy 108 16. The Art of War 122 Part III. "Niccolo Machiavelli, Historian, comic writer, and tragic writer" 127 17. A New Season in Machiavelli's Life 129 18. A Return to Business 135 19. "The annals or the history of Florence" 143 20. "The things done at home and abroad by the Florentine people" 149 21. The Friendship with Guicciardini 168 22. Clizia and the Musical Madrigals 176 23. Final Act 180 Appendix: Notes on the Use of the Word Stato in Machiavelli 193 Notes 219 Index 255

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Book SynopsisSituating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Prix Francois Guizot, Academie francaise "[E]xhilarating... Jaume, who probably knows Tocqueville's intellectual world better than anyone else alive, has reconstructed his reading in intricate detail, and brilliantly demonstrates the way particular themes and passages in Democracy in America relate to it."--David A. Bell, London Review of Books "This astute study of Alexis de Tocqueville and his landmark political study, Democracy in America (published in two volumes, in 1835 and 1840, respectively), offers insights into the Frenchman's life and times and how they shaped his perspective on the newborn American republic... Jaume does a fine job of interpreting Tocqueville's concept of the authority exercised by the public at large in a democratic America as (in Tocqueville's words) 'a sort of religion, with the majority as its prophet.' His volume provides a thorough understanding of Tocqueville's timeless work as a product of its time."--Publishers Weekly "[E]xcellent... Tocqueville knew well his own class's reservations about democracy, and Jaume shows how, like Shakespeare playing with Plutarch's plotting, Tocqueville deftly repurposed conservative French ideas for his American drama... [Jaume] sees in Tocqueville a political scientist, sociologist, moralist and writer, and discusses in detail his labors in each guise, the wonderful effect of which is to reveal how unified the man was--like the country he visited, vast and containing multitudes, as if Tocqueville saw himself in his portrait of America."--Elias Altman, The Nation "[P]rofound, elegantly written and translated."--Choice "This is one of the finest studies of Tocqueville in years. It will prove invaluable to scholars."--Library Journal "Jaume has written a good book in the category of contextual studies, from which anyone can learn relevant facts of his life and thought useful for understanding [Tocqueville]."--Harvey C. Mansfield, New Criterion "[I]mpeccable scholarship."--Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint "Jaume has given us a brilliant reading of one of the most important books about America: one that is erudite, compelling, and frustrating. The culmination of Jaume's career, it provides much more than a deeper understanding of the arguments among French intellectuals in the 1830s and '40s... Jaume shows how the question of America's future was part of a vigorous debate among French intellectuals over the meaning of liberty, aristocracy, democracy, and the role of the state in social life. And though Jaume argues against such a reading, these are debates we can still learn from today."--Shamus Khan, Public Books "[T]he book is extremely well researched and rich... [T]he book will not be exclusively of interest to Tocqueville scholars but also, and perhaps mainly, to students of the early French nineteenth century."--Tommaso Giordani, European Review of History "[R]eaders who have previously studied Tocqueville's themes will find that Jaume's multilayered narrative leads them into rarely recognized sources of his thought and provides new perspectives on the dialogical construction of his best-known texts."--Lloyd Kramer, Canadian Journal of History "Lucien Jaume pushes our understanding of Tocqueville's intellectual biography and political theory in ... many new directions... His book will not be the final word in Tocqueville studies, but it will be one of the first books read and cited by a generation of Tocqueville scholars."--David Selby, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "There are certainly many interesting insights and new observations in the book. Jaume's erudition is obvious on every page."--Helena Rosenblatt, Intellectual History Review "Tocqueville is a serious book written by an immensely learned man, rich in suggestions for future research."--Ashraf Ahmed, Cambridge Humanities Review "[Jaume's] erudite study offers readers an abundance of specific insights based on intimate acquaintance with primary sources from the nineteenth century and careful attention to the historical and linguistic nuances of Tocqueville's texts."--Aristide Tessitore, Review of Politics "Jaume's book fills an important gap in the literature about Tocqueville. It highlights the blind spots of many admirers who have only looked to America to understand Democracy."--Andreas Hess, Dublin Review of Books "Through an in-depth analysis of primary sources, cleverly combined with the vast collection of letters and handwritten notes yet unpublished, and paying a remarkable attention to the context, Jaume convincingly shows that Tocqueville's sympathy towards the American idea of citizenship does not come from a modern form of republicanism."--Danilo Breschi, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 PART ONE. WHAT DID TOCQUEVILLE MEAN BY "DEMOCRACY"? 15 1. Attacking the French Tradition: Popular Sovereignty Redefined in and through Local Liberties 21 2. Democracy as Modern Religion 65 3. Democracy as Expectation of Material Pleasures 82 PART TWO. TOCQUEVILLE AS SOCIOLOGIST 95 4. In the Tradition of Montesquieu: The State-Society Analogy 101 5. Counterrevolutionary Traditionalism: A Muffled Polemic 106 6. The Discovery of the Collective 115 7. Tocqueville and the Protestantism of His Time: The Insistent Reality of the Collective 129 PART THREE. TOCQUEVILLE AS MORALIST 145 8. The Moralist and the Question of l'Honnete 147 9. Tocqueville's Relation to Jansenism 159 PART FOUR. TOCQUEVILLE IN LITERATURE: DEMOCRATIC LANGUAGE WITHOUT DECLARED AUTHORITY 193 10. Resisting the Democratic Tendencies of Language 199 11. Tocqueville in the Debate about Literature and Society 226 PART FIVE: THE GREAT CONTEMPORARIES: MODELS AND COUNTERMODELS 249 12. Tocqueville and Guizot: Two Conceptions of Authority 251 13. Tutelary Figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand 291 Conclusion 319 Appendix 1. The Use of Anthologies and Summaries in Tocqueville's Time 327 Appendix 2. Silvestre de Sacy, Review of Democracy in America 328 Appendix 3. Letter from Alexis de Tocqueville to Silvestre de Sacy 335 Index 337

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Schultz's ... overview of William Godwin, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick is a combination of biographies of the four Utilitarian philosophers and an overview of their philosophies. In each chapter, these two parts mesh well because, as Schultz points out, 'one needs the work and the lives' to understand a philosopher's writings fully. It also works well because of the diversity of writings on the topic of ethics, freedom, belief, and epistemology... Schultz does a wonderful job of combining each thinker's biography with their philosophical development."--Library JournalTable of ContentsPrologue ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Adventures of William Godwin 9 2 Jeremy Bentham's Dream 53 3 John Stuart Mill and Company 111 4 Henry Sidgwick and Beyond 218 Epilogue 343 Notes 347 Index 403

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Book SynopsisKierkegaard translator Walter Lowrie presents a charming and warmly appreciative introduction to the life and work of the great Danish writer. Lowrie tells the story of Kierkegaard's emotionally turbulent life with a keen sense of drama and an acute understanding of how his life shaped his thought.Trade Review"Probably as good an introduction to Kierkegaard and his works as any that is likely ever to be produced."--Times Literary Supplement "A remarkable phosphorescent condensation... [Lowrie gives] us the very essence of the man... A superb study."--New Republic "A very fine introduction."--Commonweal "A magnificent portrait."--Christian Century "A sympathetic and powerful study."--Union Seminary Review "A clear and moving account of the history of Kierkegaard's development and his writings."--Baltimore Evening SunTable of ContentsIntroduction by Alastair Hannay ix Preface xxiii Background 3 Childhood 31 Early Youth - 1830 to 1834 55 The Great Earthquake - Twenty-second birthday 67 At the Cross Roads - 1835 79 The Path of Perdition- 1836 92 Groping His Way Back - May 1836 to May 1838 104 Father and Son United - Twenty-five years of age 118 The Great Parenthesis - August 1838 to July 1840 128 Regina - September 1840 to October 1841 135 The Aesthetic Works 1841 to 1845 144 The Postscript - 1846 166 The Affair of the Corsair - 1846- 176 Thirty-four Years Old - 1847 188 The Edifying Discourses - 1843 - 1855 196 Metamorphosis - 1848 201 Venturing Far Out - 1849 to 1851 210 Holding Out - 1852 to 1854 222 Godly Satire - 1854/55 239 Death and Burial - October 2 to November 18, 1855 253 Kierkegaard's Last Words 257 Kierkegaard's Works in English 261 How Kierkegaard Got into English 265 Index 289

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2015 Istvan Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers Selected for the Claremont Review of Books CRB Christmas Reading List 2015 One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015 One of The Indian Express Stand-Out Books of the Year 2015 One of the Irish Times 2015 Readers' Books of the Year Selected for National Review Online's "Some Great 2015 Books" One of The Spectator 2015 Books of the Year "[Empire and Revolution] takes us back to the beginning again with Burke, demolishing numerous shibboleths about his politics along the way... This book is both more creative and exhaustive than anything else in its single-mindedness--quite an achievement."--Duncan Kelly, Times Literary Supplement "Unsurpassable."--Colin Kidd, London Review of Books "An intensely rewarding read."--Jesse Norman MP, Times "Bourke's forensic anatomising of both the underlying consistency of Burke's commitments and also of the repeated misreadings to which his career has been subjected is a pleasure to read. Time and again Bourke skewers a misinterpretation with an acute discrimination... The range and depth of Bourke's research here, and his command of both the primary and secondary archives, is truly impressive. All future historians of ideas who intend to work on Burke will need to engage with the arguments of this book."--David Womersley, Standpoint "Bourke'sEmpire and Revolutionis the finest of intellectual portraits ... the definitive account of a life in ideas and politics."--Gavin Jacobson, Financial Times "A truly outstanding achievement... [Empire and Revolution] is the finest of all books on Edmund Burke."--Seamus Deane, Literary Review "A monument of exact scholarship and careful reflection, by a long way the best book that we have on this profound and much misunderstood politician and philosopher."--Jonathan Sumption, Spectator "A majestic study of a fascinating and gloriously ambiguous political thinker."--John Banville, Observer "Of Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke, by Richard Bourke ... It is hard to avoid the word 'magisterial'. Burke is a fascinating thinker, at once a conservative and a radical, and this beautifully written, scholarly study will be the last word on him for a long time to come."--John Banville, The Irish Times, Books of the Year "Richard Bourke's magisterial Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke ... authoritatively restores a key figure to his proper context."--Roy Foster, The Irish Times, Books of the Year "Richard Bourke's Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke [is] ... The historian's Burke in a truly massive tome."--Harvey Mansfield, Claremont Review of Books "In this wonderfully rich book, Richard Bourke tells the story of Burke's political endeavors and ideas in the context of the tumultuous time in which he lived... Bourke does it wonderfully... He paints a bold picture of a truly outstanding figure who nonetheless has to be grasped in light of the age in which he lived. You'll understand both better thanks to this book."--Yuval Levin, National Review Online "Masterful... Richard Bourke's Empire and Revolution is a magnificent intellectual biography."--Pratap Bhanu Mehta, The Indian Express "It is impossible not to admire the depth of Bourke's scholarship and the immense care and great intelligence he has displayed in examining Burke's thinking... [Empire and Revolution] is a veritable treasure trove that will offer gems of wisdom... [A]n absolute must read."--H. T. Dickinson, Intellectual History Review "This outstanding intellectual biography shows that the 18th-century Irish MP Edmund Burke can be appropriated by neither Right nor Left. Thanks to Bourke's meticulous and wide-ranging scholarship, what seem to be inconsistencies, such as condemning Warren Hastings' injustice in India but supporting the notion of empire, and supporting the American Revolution and deploring the French one, are shown to be part of Burke's nuanced, if time-bound, humanitarianism."--Jane O'Grady, Times Higher Education "The size of this volume and the fabric of its academic structure are daunting and energizing at the same time, especially given the extraordinarily high standard of analysis sustained over nine-hundred or so pages... Few intellectual historians would wish for a better illustration of their sub-discipline than Bourke's in this study, where the development of concepts and the related evolution of vocabulary are contextualized in a way that is intolerant of anachronism, yet remains both accessible and committed to the enduring relevance of Burke's thought and world."--Ian Crowe, University Bookman "Bourke's 1,000 page, extensively footnoted book seeks to cover every aspect of Edmund Burke's thought and career... This carefully argued book deserves to be read by anyone with a serious interest in Burke."--Choice "Richard Bourke's Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke ... is a landmark of scholarship... A magnificent achievement of intellectual biography, philosophical reconstruction, and historical revision."--Paul Sagar, Political Theory "[Empire and Revolution] sets a new standard not just in Burkean scholarship but in our understanding of late 18th century political thought."--Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami "Bourke possesses a subtle understanding of the political ideas at work in Burke's eighteenth century while, yet, he still brings to his comprehensive study both the sweep of the historian's eye and the depth of a historian's technical training... We can see not only the formation of Burke's ideas, but their meaning in a complex political and intellectual environment."--Steven P. Millies, Studies in Burke and His Time "Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke is ... one of several works of scholarship that have appeared in the past few years. Bourke's contribution to this corpus is a profoundly erudite study of Burke's political life; it will surely become a standard work."--Richard N. Price, American Historical Review "It is this combination of erudition, thoroughness and insight which makes Bourke's tome such a valuable contribution... Likely long to remain a standard by which other works on Burke are judged."--Mark Klobas, Political Studies Review "Bourke has produced a meticulous study that blends biography with intellectual and political history... An interesting reappraisal of one of modern history's most ambiguous political thinkers."--Gavin Murray-Miller, H-Net Reviews "Richard Bourke has contributed a monumental volume... Based on extremely thorough research in primary sources and fully up to date with the most recent secondary literature, Empire and Revolution achieves the difficult objective of making a distinctive addition to a deservedly crowded field."--Journal of the Historical AssociationTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgements, pg. xi*Abbreviations, pg. xiii*Chronology, pg. xv*Introduction, pg. 1*Overview, pg. 25*1. The Blackwater, Ballitore, Trinity, and The Reformer, pg. 27*Overview, pg. 67*2. Natural Society and Natural Religion, 1750- 1756, pg. 71*3. The Philosophical Enquiry: Science of the Passions, 1757, pg. 119*4. Conquest and Assimilation, 1757-1765, pg. 160*Overview, pg. 223*5. Party, Popularity and Dissent: Britain and Ireland, 1765-1774, pg. 227*6. Collision with the Colonies, 1765-1774, pg. 280*7. A Revolution in Ideas: Th e Indian Empire, 1766-1773, pg. 327*Overview, pg. 369*8. Representation and Reform: Britain and Ireland, 1774- 1784, pg. 373*9. Consent and Conciliation: America, 1774- 1783, pg. 448*10. A Dreadful State of Things: Madras and Bengal, 1777- 1785, pg. 516*Overview, pg. 573*11. The Advent of Crisis: India, Britain and France, 1785- 1790, pg. 577*12. The Opening of the Hastings Impeachment, 1786- 1788, pg. 627*13. The Great Primaeval Contract: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790, pg. 676*14. Whig Principles and Jacobin Dogma, 1791- 1793, pg. 740*15. The Pursuit of Hastings, 1788- 1796, pg. 820*16. Revolutionary Crescendo: Britain, Ireland and France, 1793- 1797, pg. 851*Conclusion, pg. 920*Index, pg. 929

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A bright, engaging, reliable introduction to Hume’s life and work."---Kieran Setiya, Los Angeles Review of Books"Baggini’s intertwining of philosophy with biography is masterly."---Jane O’Grady, Literary Review"Baggini knows his subject thoroughly, explains his work in clear prose and adds biographical detail which is as illuminating as it is interesting."---Alan Dent, The Penniless Press"I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Julian Baggini’s The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well."---Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist"Entertaining and informative. . . .an imaginative glimpse of Hume living his life and doing his work."---Janna Thompson, Inside Story"As we travel around with Hume, Baggini provides his readers with a steady commentary and description of his subject’s various friendships and controversies, along with brief sketches of Hume’s core ideas and contributions. All this is lively and engaging."---Paul Russell, Times Literary Supplement"In this book the author skilfully weaves together biography with intellectual history and philosophy to provide a highly readable account of Hume’s guide to life"---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"The Great Guide is an excellent introduction to Hume. The biographical travelogue lends reality to Hume as a person. The discussions of Hume’s major views are clear and careful. Hopefully the book will increase interest in Hume both inside and outside the academy."---Daniel E. Flage, European Legacy"Baggini traces Hume’s movements while exploring the evolution of his ideas. Hume had a profound impact on the history of philosophy. . . .But Hume’s more technical ideas about cause and effect isn’t the big takeaway from Baggini’s book, at least not for people who believe philosophy really is about virtue. Hume’s often contrarian ideas, his commitment to question everything, serves as an inspiration for living well. . . .What more could you want from a philosopher?"---Steven Gambardella, Sophist

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Erudite and beautifully written. . . . Gill gives us a marvelous book that is engaging and thoughtful about what constitutes beauty and why we need it."---Lee Trepanier, The Russell Kirk Center

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Book SynopsisThe Canadian Federation of University Women have undertaken as their Centennial project a biographical account of twenty noteworthy women. From a large number of vigorous and accomplished candidates a selection was made from various historical periods, from various regions of Canada, and from the various activities in which women have engaged. Each was to have significance in the development of Canadian society. It was also the wish of the C.F.U.W. that the essays should be based on original research and be written in a lively and readable style by women authors who are contributors to literary activities in Canada today.The book begins with the early pioneers of Canada in their several areas of settlement: Madame de la Tour, Mère Marie de l'Incarnation, Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. It includes Pauline Johnson, Laure Conan, L.M. Montgomery, Emily Carr, and Mazo de la Roche who over the years helped to establish women as professional contributors to literature and

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Book SynopsisThis concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.

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Book SynopsisTranslated from German, this exhaustive exploration of Fechner's impact on philosophy and science is an invaluable historical text.Trade ReviewA brilliant book. . . . No historian of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German science and philosophy can afford to ignore it."" - British Journal for the History of Science

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Book SynopsisPlutarch’s Life of Cicero is one of his greatest works. A valuable historical document, largely based on contemporary sources, it also gives a perceptive analysis of Cicero’s character and psychology. This edition aims at a wide audience, from first-time readers to specialists. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Trade Review“Useful and comprehensive introduction... a piece of work both scholarly and useful.”Classical Review“It is unusually good at providing material at all levels: an excellent introduction to Plutarch for beginners, it is also much more quoted than most other volumes in the series because of its contributions to scholarship (his discussion of the concept of ‘truth’ is especially noteworthy).”HistosTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Using this book 2. The Pleasures and Virtues of Plutarch 3. The Cicero: Structure and Theme 4. Word Patterns 5. Translation 6. Complexity and Intent 7. The Demosthenes-Cicero Pairing 8. The Sources of the Cicero 9. The Cicero: Biography, History, Literature and Truth 10. The Historical Value of the Cicero 11. The Text Text and Translation The Commentary Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisA story of growing up in turmoil, of a childhood split between a charming, mercurial, abusive father in the forests of the Pacific Northwest and a mother struggling with poverty in The Dalles. It is also a story of generational turmoil, of violent men, societal restrictions, of children not always chosen and often raised alone.Trade Review“The title of Tina Ontiveros' new memoir, rough house, says it all, describing both the delight of her clever father and his menacing flip-side. Ontiveros pulls no punches in portraying a hardscrabble childhood in Pacific Northwest logging camps and her desperate love for a darkly complicated man."- Debra Gwartney, author of I am a Stranger Here Myself;"In spite of her struggle, there is something so plucky and honest about this book's narrator, you will be converted to a new view of your own troubles. You will look at your own life through the lens of this book, knowing with Ontiveros that "certain beauties can only be seen in the complication of hardship." This kid's got the goods to survive, and this book's got a big story for you."- Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar

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Book SynopsisStephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter’s search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead in the American West.

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Book SynopsisVan Berkel's account provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of the origins of the mechanical philosophy of nature, the philosophy that culminated in the work of Isaac Newton.Trade ReviewThis is an exceedingly rich book... it should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the origins of modern science. -- Richard T. W. Arthur HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Van Berkel has uncovered the rich content and historical significance of Beeckman and his journal. -- Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Metascience Van Berkel has done an admirable job of recreating Beeckman's life and helping us to understand his development and his place in the progress of science in the seventeenth century. -- Sheila J. Rabin Sixteenth Century Journal A thoroughly researched... study of Beeckman's life and scientific achievements. -- Antonio Clericuzio The British Journal for the History of Science In the present book Van Berkel succeeds in revealing the context as well as the content of Beeckman's life and scholarly work... An important contribution to the history of the new science of the seventeenth century, and is a must for every scholar of this period. Renaissance Quarterly ... Van Berkel's book is an important contribution to our understanding of early modern natural philosophy. Early Science and MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Making of a Natural Philosopher, 1588–16192. Schoolteacher and Craftsman, 1619–16273. Among Patricians and Philosophers, 1627–16374. Principles of Mechanical Philosophy I: Matter5. Principles of Mechanical Philosophy II: Motion6. Sources for a Mechanical Philosophy7. Beeckman and the Scientific RevolutionNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1985. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whiteheadat the age of sixty-threeto settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. Discussing these andTrade ReviewA very readable biography of one of the twentieth century's most powerful philosophers.—IsisTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The WhiteheadsChapter 3. ChildhoodChapter 4. SherborneChapter 5. Student at CambridgeChapter 6. Mathematics at CambridgeChapter 7. The Cambridge ApostlesChapter 8. The Young Mathematician Chapter 9. Whitehead's Thirtieth YearChapter 10. The Married MathematicianChapter 11. Bertrand RussellChapter 12. Principia MathematicaChapter 13. Principia Mathematica (Continued)Chapter 14. "On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World"Chapter 15. Last Years in CambridgeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPeruvian Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (1895-1979) was one of Latin America's key revolutionary leaders, well known across national boundaries. Inigo Garcia-Bryce's biography of Haya chronicles his political odyssey as founder of the influential American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, as a political theorist whose philosophy shifted from Marxism to democracy, and as a seasoned opposition figure.

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Book SynopsisIn this fascinating work, K. Stephen Prince sheds fresh light on both the history of the Robert Charles riots and the practice of history-writing itself. He reveals evidence of intentional erasures, both in the ways the riot and its aftermath were chronicled and in the ways stories were silenced or purposefully obscured.

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Book SynopsisThis probing study of the career, works, and influence of Ernst Cassirer -- a German-Jewish neo-Kantian who taught at the University of Hamburg until Hitler came to power -- analyses his thoughts on human culture as they developed during the turbulent political and cultural conditions in the Germany of his time. The most striking characteristic for Cassirer's life and work was his belief in the freedom of the individual and in the necessary connection between individual freedom and the primacy of reason in human history. Cassirer wanted to pass on his contemporaries the courage to use their own reason. His failure to create the lasting world view based on these ideas reflected a dilemma confronting many liberal intellectuals on the European continent. The author examines several distinct phases in Cassirer's career. Part I deals with Cassirer as a philosopher of Imperial Germany and examines his early neo-Kantian writings (1899-1914). Part 2 covers the years 1914-22 and the reorien

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Book SynopsisIn This Fish Is FowlXu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary“glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries of residence, she writes her way around the globe. Caring for her mother with Alzheimer’s in Hong Kong becomes the rhythmic accompaniment to an enforced, long-term, long-distance relationship with her partner and home in New York. In between Xu reflects on all her selves, which are defined by those myriad monikers of existence. As an author who began life as a novelist and fiction writer, she also considers the nature of genre, which snakes its way through these essays. In her linguistic trip across the comic tragedy that is globalism, she wonders Trade Review"A whirlwind, wise introduction to the complicated joys of multiculturalism, This Fish Is Fowl is intensely personal yet fully engaged with the world, celebrating our differences as well as our shared universal experiences."—Foreword Reviews, starred"Broad-ranging, introspective, and honest essays that reveal a fine writer's experiences, mind, and heart."—Kirkus"Throughout these broad-ranging and honest essays, Xi wonders about humanity and the future of our world. She explores her cultural and family identity as well as past experiences. . . . Xi reminds us of the true meanings of identity and belonging, while celebrating all our differences."—Anita Nham, Hippocampus Magazine“There is absolutely no one like Xu Xi. To read these smart, inventive, and always surprising essays is to be given a passport to a transnational perspective the world sorely needs at this moment. Xu Xi’s sense of identity: Indonesian/Chinese/American/Hong Kong is not mixed up (though she likes to label herself a ‘mongrel’), but expansive. Identity for her has almost nothing to do with borders but with a kind of echolocation—sending forth her speculations on what it means to be a traveler, a daughter, a life partner, a woman in order to determine a shifting but remarkable path through geographies of being.”—Robin Hemley, founder of NonfictioNOW and author of A Field Guide for Immersion Writing“In an age of willful ignorance, parochialism, and a dominant prose style typified by misspelled tweets, Xu Xi’s writing is smart, international, and fluid. She navigates smoothly between not only countries and continents but, perhaps hardest of all, family members. Here the personal isn’t just political; it’s global. And, most important, deeply compassionate.”—Sue William Silverman, author of The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew“This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being explores the life of one whose shredded passport is never large enough to hold it all. Woven into skillful family story are topics ranging from the status of Dreamers in the U.S. to the ‘crying city’ of Hong Kong after the Occupy Movement, all dancing around the question of what it means to belong. With so many countries gripped by a new and brutal nationalism, Xu Xi reminds us there is another side—a world lived by many between a blur of borders. Part breezy, leaping memoir, part social commentary, this book adds a crucial chapter to the old story of national identity.”—Susanne Antonetta, author of Make Me a Mother and A Mind ApartTable of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsOn Being To Be American Why I Stopped Being Chinese Citizenship BG: The Significant Years Default Home Letter from America Winter Moon The Summers of My Discontent The Crying CityMum and Me Typhoon Mum Maternity Leave My Mother’s Story: The Fiction and Fact Mum and Me Precarious Precision Journeys through Past Times: A Norwich Narrative Home Base And Then, Filial Time Off-Season with Snake Waiting Women For As Long As We Both Shall LiveWo/man Roars Feminism and Faith On Being Fowl: Notes on Some Explorations in Home Economics Concubine LoveOrigins A Ledge, a Nun The English of My Story Ambition Game The Book That Saved My Writing Life To Loaf, or How Not to Write a CV This Door Is Close By Any Other Name

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Book SynopsisA monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked from the credo: To philosophize is to learn to live freely. While he was slow and cautious in the development of his philosophy, his intellectual growth was like an odyssey of the mind, and, contrary to popular belief, his life was full of twists and turns, suspense and even danger. In this landmark biography, the philosopher Klaus Vieweg paints a new picture of the life and work of the most important representative of German idealism. His vivid portrait provides readers an intimate account of Hegel's times and the milieu in which he developed his thought, along with detailed, clear-sighted analyses of Hegel's four major works. What results is a new interpretation of Hegel through the lens of reason and freedom. Vieweg draws on extensive archival research that has brought to light a wealth of hitherto undiscovered documents and handwritten notes relating to Hegel's work, touching on Hegel's engagement with the leading thinkers and writers of his age: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hölderlin, and others. Combatting clichés and misunderstandings about Hegel, Vieweg also offers a sustained defense of the philosopher's more progressive impulses. Highly praised upon its release in Germany as having set the new biographical standard, this monumental work emphasizes Hegel's relevance for today, depicting him as a vital figure in the history of philosophy.Trade Review"Vieweg's biography of Hegel is more than the best work in its field—it sets new standards for a book on Hegel and for a philosopher's biography as such. It magically unites a detailed knowledge about Hegel's life and work with a deep engagement in today's emancipatory struggle. It is not a historicist account of Hegel's work as the result of its time; it makes Hegel our own contemporary."—Slavoj Žižek, author of Hegel in A Wired Brain"This is a landmark in the 200-year literature on Hegel. Skillfully uncovering the complex strands of ideas and influences that the philosopher weaves together, Vieweg takes Hegel seriously as a living presence in our efforts to understand the world today."—James J. Sheehan, author of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?"In a crystal clear and vivid style, as far as its subject matter allows, one can trace the development of Hegel's thinking, its roots and influences, but also its originality and, above all, its enduring political relevance."—Richard Kämmerlings, Die Welt"An extensive biography of Hegel has been missing for many decades. Thankfully, Klaus Vieweg now offers one that will be standard for years to come."—GNOSTIIKA"The indisputable value of Vieweg's treatment of Hegel is the paraphrastic intellectual history, his 'walk-throughs' of the main works. Each is a tour de force. For the student of any of these Hegelian works, Vieweg provides a reliable and focused guide."—Russell Berman, author of Fiction Sets You Free"In a clever and vivid way, Vieweg combines biographical and anecdotal elements... with systematic considerations, which however always follow Hegel's way of thinking."—Micha Brumlik, Die Tageszeitung"Vieweg's opulent biography sets standards and may remain unmatched for years to come."—Otto A. Böhmer, Frankfurter Rundschau"A great, often surprising biography."—Jens Bisky, Süddeutsche Zeitung"Klaus Vieweg's outstanding biography, based on original research and written with verve and imagination, rightly places freedom and reason at the center of Hegel's thought. It paints an engaging and colorful picture of one of the world's greatest thinkers."—Stephen Houlgate, author of Hegel on Being"Vieweg's new biography makes us understand how, paradoxically and dialectically, Hegel's personal experience of the frustrated early attempts at founding a German Republic can account for a philosophy enabling and encouraging life in freedom, independently of place and time."—Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, author of Prose of the World"In a bravura weaving together of a richly textured narrative of Hegel's incident-packed life, the tumultuous socio-political world in which he lived, and exuberant reconstructions of the four foundational works, Vieweg has produced an all but unanswerable case that Hegel was, from his youth until his last days, a philosopher of the French Revolution, forever loyal to its ideals and promises, and his system, then and now, the most compelling philosophy of freedom, social freedom, we possess. Scintillating and irreplaceable."—Jay Bernstein, author of Political ConceptsTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction To Philosophize Is to Think Freely, to Learn to Live Freely 1. The Beloved Hometown: Growing Up in Stuttgart, 1770–1788 2. A Student at the Protestant Seminary:Tübingen, 1788–1793 3. A Private Tutor of a Patrician Family: Switzerland, 1793–1796 4. From a Mosaic of Fragments to the Cornerstone of a System: Frankfurt, 1797–1800 5. The Birth of Absolute Idealism: Jena 1801–1807 6. The Political Journalist: Bamberg, 1807–1808 7. The First Humanistic Gymnasium and the Science of Logic: Nuremberg, 1808–1816 8. The Owl of Minerva on the Neckar: Heidelberg, 1816–1818 9. The "Great Center": Becoming World-Famous in Berlin, 1818–1831 Obituaries Acknowledgments Notes Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThis volume, the original version of which was published in 1988, brings to a close the autobiographical writings of a modern Christian philosopher who lived through the two World Wars and the ecclesiastical upheaval in the Catholic Church in the context of the Second Vatican Council. What stamps this philosopher throughout the course of his life – with all its social and political uncertainties – is his constant dedication to truth and his manifest unswerving integrity. Themes with which the reader of his previous works would be well acquainted recur in this volume. The dedicated Catholic philosopher, who preferred his independence as a trainer of teachers to the less independent role of a professor in a Catholic university, was quite prepared to criticize developments in the Church which resulted from Vatican II. In his defense of the sacred, which he deemed threatened by popularizing trends in the Church, he criticized what he saw as the watered down language in modern German translations of Church liturgical texts; the growing preference for secular garb; and the compromising developments which saw the sacramental signs – surrounding baptism, for instance – being reduced to such an extent that they no longer had the power to signify their sacred meaning even to a well-intentioned congregation. A great lover of the philosophy of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas – among many others –, Pieper highlighted the need for living a life of truth. He did not consider truth to be merely something abstract but as something to be lived existentially. While he could explain his philosophy in clear rational terms, something which especially stood to him in his post-war lectures to eager students who were hungry for intellectual guidance and leadership, the great interest of his philosophy was, possibly, his preoccupation with mystery – that which impinges on our inner lives but frustrates all our attempts to account for it in purely rational terms. As a philosopher – one might say a Christian philosopher – Pieper seems to have observed the traditional boundaries drawn between philosophy and theology. His generation was exposed to the modernist debates in the Church. It would have been deemed heretical to say that the Divine could be grasped by our purely human thought processes – access to the Divine being only possible through faith and grace. Pieper was no heretic. But he was also not altogether conservative. In fact, his philosophy, closely allied to existentialism – despite his care, for instance, to distance himself from the negative existentialism of Sartre – focused on the individual’s inner existential grasp of the most profound reality. Truth is to be found within us, even if it remains a mystery. What lies beyond death is, for the individual, the ultimate mystery.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be instantly transformed into the most hated person in your community? After meeting Fidel Castro at a Havana reception in 1994, Cuban-born Magda Montiel Davis, founder of one of the largest immigration law firms in South Florida, soon found out. The reception - attended by hundreds of other Cuban ÉmigrÉs - was videotaped for historical archives. In a seconds-long clip, Fidel pecks the traditional protocol kiss on Montiel Davis's cheek as she thanks him for the social benefits conferred upon the Cuban people. The video, however, was mysteriously sold to U.S. reporters and aired incessantly throughout South Florida. Soon the encounter was an international cause cÉlÈbre.Life as she knew it was over for Montiel Davis and her family, including a father who worked with the CIA to topple Fidel, a nohablo-inglÉs mother who lived with the family, her five children, and her Jewish Brooklyn-born attorney husband. Kissing Fidel shares the sometimes dismal, sometimes comical realities of an ordinary citizen being thrown into a world of death threats, mob attacks, and terrorism.Trade Review“Kissing Fidel is most generous in how it treats the layered nuances of history; not just as fact, but as something that impacts the body, the landscape, the maze of the mind. I love how this work intersects, how it asks questions of both reader and self, with the understanding that there is no one clear answer. This is a rich and resonant text.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, judge, Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction “A powerful, terrifying vision of a dark political landscape unfamiliar to most Americans. After reading Kissing Fidel, I will never see Miami, or this country, quite the same way again.”—Kerry Howley, author, Thrown “In April 1994, Magda Montiel Davis was thrust into a maelstrom of injustice, violence, and bigotry. In this book she writes eloquently of the power drawn from her personal convictions, her family, and the colleagues who stood by her.”—Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti

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Book SynopsisA seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, Frank B. Wilderson III, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilisation that flourishes today, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose, he juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic Minneapolis upbringing with the harshness later encountered, whether in Berkeley or Soweto. Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.Trade Review"Wilderson’s ambitious book offers its readers two great gifts. First, it strives mightily to make its pessimistic vision plausible. Anyone unconvinced by the vision may find this a dubious contribution, but enough people have been convinced by the view to make an accessible introduction to it a valuable resource just for understanding contemporary intellectual life. Second, the book depicts a remarkable life, lived with daring and sincerity. Afropessimismshares unvarnished glimpses of Wilderson’s childhood, his undergraduate years, his life as a worker and activist between stints in the academy, his graduate studies and their toll on his mental health, his personal relationships, and his experiences as an increasingly well-regarded academic." -- Paul C. Taylor - The Washington Post"There are crucial books that you don’t agree with, but one still comes to understand the importance of the thought experiment. Afropessimism is one of those books." -- Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric

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Book SynopsisBalik-Tanaw: The Road Taken is the memoir of the distinguished Filipino critic, Soledad S. Reyes. This book is a record of Reyess journey of more than seven decades where personal narrative intertwines with people and events, with social and political movements with which the country sought to negotiate the treacherous shoals in the postwar years. The account carries a fair amount of biographical data (as lodged in the critics memory in the absence of diaries), from her childhood into her college years. But as the context becomes wider and more complex, the narrative takes on a more analytical frame as she tries to make sense of disparate experiences whirling about her in the tumult of the 1970s and beyond, and in the startling changes in the political landscape, local and global, that now grip the Filipino nation. This account, according to the author, is a story of an individual constructing a narrative that seeks to impose order upon chaos by retrieving aspects of the past and weaving a series of recalcitrant experiences into a coherent whole. Published in association with De La Salle University Publishing House

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Book SynopsisFrank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology​Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans​Out of the Red is one man’s pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After a childhood of poverty, institutional discrimination, violence, and being thrown away by the public education system, Bolden's life took him through the treacherous landscape of street gangs at the age of fourteen. The Bloods offered a sense of family, protection, excitement, and power. Incarcerated during the Texas prison boom, the teenage former gangster was thrust into a fight for survival as he navigated the perils of adult prison. As mass incarceration and prison gangs swallowed up youth like him, survival meant finding hope in a hopeless situation and carving a path to his own rehabilitation. Despite all odds, he forged a new path through education, ultimately achieving the seemingly impossible for a formerly incarcerated ex-gangbanger. Trade Review“Bolden provides a sobering account of gang life through a personal narrative that captures the realities of violence, victimization, adolescent frustrations, and systemic dysfunction in social institutions. He displays an enormous amount of courage by writing clearly about both his participation in violence and his firsthand experiences being either a victim of or witness to brutal crimes. He provides a thorough account of gang life in San Antonio and beyond.” -- Timothy Lauger * author of Real Gangstas: Legitimacy, Reputation, and Violence in the Intergang Environment *"Compelling and powerful, Out of the Red joins a small but important body of autoethnographic works on crime, victimization, and injustice. Seamlessly blending his life story and lived experience with scholarship on gangs, delinquency, and justice, Bolden offers a moving and rigorous assessment of the causes and consequences of social and legal inequalities in America." -- Jody Miller * Distinguished Professor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice *"Tommy Tucker, First News," WWL Radio interview with Christian Bolden https://www.radio.com/wwl/blogs/tommy-tucker-wwl-first-news/tommy-why-do-some-break-bad * "Tommy Tucker, First News," WWL Radio *"Mr. Holland’s masterpiece: Resurrecting a life" https://clarionherald.org/news/mr-hollands-masterpiece-resurrecting-a-life * Clarion Herald *"The Reading Life: Tom Cooper, Christian Bolden" https://www.wwno.org/post/reading-life-tom-cooper-christian-bolden * The Reading Life, WWNO *"From Gang Member to PhD: Defying the Odds," by Isidoro Rodriguez https://thecrimereport.org/2020/11/04/from-gang-member-to-phd-defying-the-odds/ * The Crime Report *Table of ContentsContents List of Images List of Tables List of Figures Prologue Introduction Part I - Gangs Poverty Adultism Neighborhoods Bangin’ in San Antone Escalation Purgatory Part II - Prison Texas Hold ‘em Fellowship Between the Lines Transitions Wally World Starting from the Bottom Letters Part III - Redemption Outcast Freedom Pinnacles Acknowledgements Appendix - San Antonio Gang Member Interviews Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books - Caregiving category​ESS Public Sociology Award​Recommended Book in Domestic Violence by DomesticShelters.org How do you go about caregiving for an ill and elderly parent with a lifelong history of abuse and control, intertwined with expressions of intense love and adoration? How do you reconcile the resulting ambivalence, fear, and anger? Welcome to Wherever We Are is a meditation on what we hold onto, what we let go of, how we remember others and ultimately how we’re remembered. Deborah Cohan shares her story of caring for her father, a man who was simultaneously loud, gentle, loving and cruel and whose brilliant career as an advertising executive included creating slogans like “Hey, how ‘bout a nice Hawaiian punch?” Wrestling with emotional extremes that characterize abusive relationships, Cohan shows how she navigated life with a man who was at once generous and affectionate, creating magical coat pockets filled with chocolate kisses when she was a little girl, yet who was also prone to searing, vicious remarks like “You’d make my life easier if you’d commit suicide.” In this gripping memoir, Cohan tells her unique personal story while also weaving in her expertise as a sociologist and domestic abuse counselor to address broader questions related to marriage, violence, divorce, only children, intimacy and loss. A story most of us can relate to as we reckon with past and future choices against the backdrop of complicated family dynamics, Welcome to Wherever We Are is about how we might come to live our own lives better amidst unpredictable changes through grief and healing.Questions for Discussion (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/11140346/Cohan_Discussion.docx) Trade Review“With scrupulous honesty, and what Deborah so beautifully calls “tender curiosity,” this is a journey toward reconciliation with the ambivalence she felt towards an emotionally abusive father. She winds up with love. Her memoir is an inspiration.” -- Abigail Thomas * author of What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir and A Three Dog Life *“Cohan’s beautifully-nuanced book is an important addition to a distinctly American strain of memoir that seeks to fully explore family dynamics with all of its complications, glories, travails, and facing of mortality. This is a slice of life that is both wide and deep.” -- Sue William Silverman * author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You *“Welcome to Wherever We Are is a memoir of a difficult family, a relationship between a father and a daughter. It involves abuse, dislike, love and a great deal of caring. It is a memoir, but one guided by the sociological lens of writer Deborah Cohan. She offers us a personal story set in the context of complicated family relationships in contemporary American society.” -- Barbara J. Risman * co-editor of Families as They Really Are *"Are we doing enough to protect children from predators?" by Gracie Bonds Staples: https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/are-doing-enough-protect-children-from-predators/yOPwPpYM1VLO0dnWpGwFML/ * Atlanta Journal-Constitution *"How to Remodel Your Home With Your Significant Other—Without Arguing Even Once," by Kelsey Mulvey: https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/home-improvement/renovations/home-remodeling-couple * Real Simple *"Love the sinner, hate the sin: thus, unfurls Cohan's memoir. Fractional love and uncomfortable rage toward her father blend with her longing for his abusive behavior to disappear and leave only the often extraordinary father. Cohan's crystalline honest prose brings the reader inside the dilemma of caring for an aging parent who brought her torment laced with love and magic--what is it like to adore, fear, and protect yourself from the father you feared and cherished?" -- Randy Susan Meyers * author of The Murderer’s Daughters and Waisted *"An Open Letter to College Students about the Heartbeat Bill: Notes from a College Professor on Abortion" by Deborah J. Cohan, Ph.D.: https://medium.com/@debjcoh/an-open-letter-to-college-students-about-the-heartbeat-bill-notes-from-a-college-professor-on-63effdcabdb6 * Medium *"Deborah Cohan has written a brave and beautiful memoir….not ‘beautiful’ in the sense of pretty or lovely or sugarcoated in any way. Beautifully written, yes, but also beautiful in its raw, graphic honesty—that is, in the sense that truth is beauty. There is much hard-won wisdom in these pages--wisdom gleaned from Cohan’s years of caregiving for an abusive parent--and it will benefit those who find themselves navigating that rocky terrain. But this is also a story about life and death, love and loss, and the complicated nature of family and relationship. Which makes Welcome to Wherever We Are a universal story, one with wisdom for us all." -- Abby Seixas * author of Finding the Deep River Within *"How to Support an Employee Coming Out at Work," by Skye Schooley https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/15141-employee-coming-out.html * Business News Daily *"The Society Pages 3Q with Deborah J. Cohan" https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2019/08/06/3q-with-deborah-j-cohan/ * The Society Pages *"There Has to Be a Better Way," by Deborah J. Cohan https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/08/21/diversity-and-antiharassment-trainings-must-be-improved-opinion * Inside Higher Education *"The Most Anticipated Memoirs of 2020" by Stephanie Elliot https://shereads.com/most-anticipated-memoirs-of-2020/ * She Reads *"How to Write a Lot on a Heavy Teaching Load" by Deborah J. Cohan https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/12/05/how-write-more-regularly-and-publish-more-often-despite-having-heavy-teaching-load * Inside Higher Education *Mention of Welcome to Wherever We Are in the November 2019 issue of Active for Life http://scottvilleareaseniorcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/November-2019-Working-Copy.pdf * Active for Life (Mason County, MI) *"Author Deborah J. Cohan: 'How To Connect With Yourself To Live With Better Relationships'" by Kristin Marquet https://medium.com/authority-magazine/author-deborah-j-cohan-how-to-connect-with-yourself-to-live-with-better-relationships-9113bf69603a * Authority Magazine *"Cohan tells her personal journey while weaving in her expertise as a sociologist and domestic abuse counselor to address broader questions related to marriage, violence, divorce, only children, intimacy and loss. Most people deal with at least one of these issues. The book explores how people could live better amidst unpredictable changes through grief and healing." * Cleveland Jewish News *"In this engrossing memoir, sociologist Deborah Cohan candidly describes her struggle caring for her aging father, who, as she was growing up, was at once kind and cruel. Undoubtedly, readers will be able to relate to Cohan’s explorations into the complexities of family, evolving relationships, and complicated emotions." * Ms. Magazine *"#GirlDad a nice sentiment but might come with mixed emotions" by Gracie Bonds Staples https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/girldad-nice-sentiment-but-might-come-with-mixed-emotions/sSVEg8lX35QBA8FNsWjU0N/ * Atlanta Journal Constitution *"Author and Shaker Heights native Deborah J. Cohan to discuss her new book, 'Welcome to Wherever We Are'" by Roxanne Washington https://www.cleveland.com/living/2020/02/author-and-shaker-heights-native-deborah-j-cohan-to-discuss-her-new-book-welcome-to-wherever-we-are.html * Cleveland Plain Dealer *"Phone Calls: An Excerpt From Welcome To Wherever We Are by Deborah J. Cohan" https://www.ravishly.com/phone-calls-excerpt-welcome-wherever-we-are * Ravishly *"Cohan’s father was a story of opposites – abusive and controlling and also at times gentle and loving. When he gets sick and she must take care of him, she’s unsure how to manage her emotions. She must let go of her anger in order to help her father and to come to terms with her own grief to begin to heal." * She Reads *"Welcome to Wherever We Are is a brave memoir that sheds light on the challenges of caring for an abusive parent. This volume is bound to offer solace and support to those in similar situations. Deborah J. Cohan’s honesty and compassion make this a unique and valuable memoir for anyone who has survived abuse by a parent and struggles to make sense of the conflicting feelings of love and responsibility as well as anger and resentment toward their abuser." * Ms. Magazine *"Column: What if the elderly parent you’re caring for abused you as a child? New memoir explores a timely, complicated subject" by Heidi Stevens https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-heidi-stevens-coronavirus-welcome-to-wherever-we-are-book-0331-20200331-hfnbmefz7jdffavxle5tpu6j7i-story.html? * Chicago Tribune *"This memoir of caretaking unspools so many of the complicated emotions wrapped up in helping a parent as they die. Writing about taking care of her father, Deborah J. Cohan details the realities of what it means to get sick and the toll it takes on the people around the ill person. A compassionate narrative, the book shows us how life doesn’t stop when we are providing care to sick loved ones — it only gets trickier." * Buzzfeed *"Both Sides of the Truth" by Deborah J. Cohan https://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2020/summer/turning-points.html * Brandeis Magazine *"A Memoir Of Family, Caregiving and Redemption: 'Some Things Can Be Deleted, Just Often Not The Memory" by Deborah J. Cohan * Ms. Magazine *"In this gripping memoir, Cohan tells her unique personal story while also weaving in her expertise as a sociologist and domestic abuse counselor to address broader questions related to marriage, violence, divorce, only children, intimacy, and loss." * The Ohioana *"Cohan writes poetically about the love we share with others, even those who harm us. Yet, she never sees herself as a victim, rather, Cohan finds the courage to allow herself to be vulnerable, to break, and to find her way into strength and resilience. Her experiences evoke in her a deep compassion for others....As a public sociologist and former domestic abuse counselor, Cohan makes potent links between sociology and memoir. She draws parallels between memoir writing and qualitative research methods, specifically case studies." * Sociological Forum *"At the heart of this book is Cohan’s self-awareness that her father’s love and abuse were intertwined and her ongoing recovery from that confusing simultaneity led her to write this book. It is a rare author who can artfully write a memoir that is both personal and a deep sociological analysis of family and identity. This book is applicable to any sociology or psychology course yet will also appeal to memoir writers and readers who want an example of a compassionate treatment of a life that includes love, abuse, and ongoing recovery." * Psychology of Women Quarterly *“Welcome to Wherever We Are is the perfect illustration of the whole spectrum of intergenerational solidarity, conflict, and ambiguity within family relationships and ties during both life and death.” -- Sarah E. Patterson * Contexts *"In sum, Welcome to Wherever We Are centers the personal—the inner conflict that Cohan had with wanting to provide good care, be a good daughter, and still love an abusive father through continued abuse. It is a book about the contradictions in relationships, in care, and in abuse. While it significantly adds to the research on caregiving and family violence, it does not do so from a distance but breaks down the barriers between academic literature and our own personal experiences by weaving together intimate personal stories grounded in the larger social context. It is up close, personal, emotional, and messy." -- Christina Barmon * Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course *Table of ContentsIntroduction Phone Calls The Diaries Messages Accidents Sugar The Dinner Table The Kaleidoscope Medical Records The Gold Pen The Volunteer Random Acts of Kindness Death Notice Obituary Ashes Birthday Letter Re-learning to Fly The Birth(day) Ring Worry Machine Change of Address Epilogue Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisPutting admirable rationales of university education into practice is never easy. While it is popular to emphasize market values and competitive rankings, moral values and ideals sound way too lofty nowadays. Under tensions on campus and in society, the head of a university takes the role of striking a balance as skilfully as possible. Professor Joseph Sung is no exception to all these challenges. He has been enjoying university life with teachers and students, going through ups and downs with them. This book, a collection of 57 blog articles by Professor Sung during his tenure as the seventh Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, tells us the stories. He talks about higher education and social responsibility, pathways and choices our youths make, the visions he had and the challenges he faced, and life values which he wishes his students could take seriously. Though generations come and go, he still cares that they live a simple, noble and humble life. He hopes we care too.

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Book SynopsisThese are stories about an average young man who grew up among talented people. These talented people "raised" him and so many others. We were exceptional in that we picked up their dreams for us and made them ours. We became the farmers, lawyers, doctors and teachers who made our town and South Georgia very special. This volume reminds us that dreams can come true. This was probably the last generation of teachers--mostly women--who opened the door of hope far wider than any of us had ever dreamed.We were among so many brilliant people. Regardless of where you grew up, you had teachers like them. For me, there were people like Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Crum, Coaches Davis and Tucker, Mrs. Agnew Andrews Brown, Mrs. Tabor and a host of others. Our parents gave us opportunities they never had. Every name in these pages made a huge difference in the lives they touched. Our world needs again and again what we found in our little country town. May those hearing these stories for the first, second or third time be inspired to tell them over and over again. They are your stories. Claim them.

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Book SynopsisThese are stories about an average young man who grew up among talented people. These talented people "raised" him and so many others. We were exceptional in that we picked up their dreams for us and made them ours. We became the farmers, lawyers, doctors and teachers who made our town and South Georgia very special. This volume reminds us that dreams can come true. This was probably the last generation of teachers--mostly women--who opened the door of hope far wider than any of us had ever dreamed.We were among so many brilliant people. Regardless of where you grew up, you had teachers like them. For me, there were people like Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Crum, Coaches Davis and Tucker, Mrs. Agnew Andrews Brown, Mrs. Tabor and a host of others. Our parents gave us opportunities they never had. Every name in these pages made a huge difference in the lives they touched. Our world needs again and again what we found in our little country town. May those hearing these stories for the first, second or third time be inspired to tell them over and over again. They are your stories. Claim them.

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