epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Berneri, Marie Louise; Adams, Matthew S.; Woodcock, George

DIDEROT Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage DIDEROT believed that “Nature gave no man the right to rule over others,” and he maintained his belief by refusing to become, like so many ...

epub |eng | | Author:Susheila Nasta

The Politics of Writing Popular Fiction: challenging the African literary tradition1 Mukoma Wa Ngugi I IN 1962 A GROUP of young African writers gathered at Makerere University for a conference ...

epub |eng | | Author:Emily Apter

Sleaze, fear, and criminality come together as the elements that will forge Rougon’s aggrandized power. As he breathes in the fatal atmosphere he gathers resolve for a more ruthless mode ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fredric Jameson

Figure 5.1 Source: Reprinted with permission from Financial Policy Magazine, March 2, 2016 One could then very easily go on—I have only included a few hints—and turn this into a ...

mobi |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Ricardo Duchesne

Janet Ajzenstat on Canada’s “Political Nationality” The most prominent exponent of a Straussian interpretation of Canada’s identity is Janet Ajzenstat. She has gone right back to the arguments of the ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-17 | Author:Julian Hanna;

52. Beyond the masculinist model Rather than give in to destructive rage, however, Woolf sets it up as only one of several possible reactions to the challenges and barriers faced ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-19 | Author:Ezio Di Nucci

The old fellow is put on his place with a roar of laughter. He is humiliated, and others enjoy this. They feel superior to the ridiculous senile runt, whose days ...

epub |eng | | Author:Valeria Luiselli

Police We cannot live without law enforcement. Some people will simply break the law until stopped. So our societies must deputize some people to stop, detain, and arrest those who ...

epub |eng | | Author:Shu, Yuan; Pease, Donald E.;

Notes This chapter previously appeared in Etsuko Taketani’s The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars, published in 2014 by Dartmouth College Press. The ...

epub |eng | | Author:Pascale Casanova

This strange, contradictory solution draws on Descartes and Leibniz as well as Spinoza. In cases of the most extreme compulsion, Geulincx granted a certain indetermination that is the sole tragic ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-15 | Author:Mendlesohn, Farah; [Mendlesohn, Farah]

Guns: An Aside One aspect of Heinlein’s beliefs about civic society was that the citizen had a right to carry arms and that this was a fundamental element of individual ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Susie Linfield [Linfield, Susie]

Maxime Rodinson, Isaac Deutscher, and Albert Memmi belonged to roughly the same generation and shared many traits. Each emerged from poverty on the basis of outstanding intellectual abilities; each was ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Bonnie Costello [Costello, Bonnie]

Whatever else Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on The Tempest is about—the limits of art, the dualities of power, the need for grace, the Second World War, ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Lisa Duggan [Duggan, Lisa]

During the mid-1940s, the political atmosphere was shifting as the world war ended and the Cold War ramped up. Rand’s ideas moved from the margins toward the center of U.S. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:John Burnside [Burnside, John]

Like a Fluid (The Great Romantic) The great artist is he who conquers the romantic in himself. —Henry Miller, Black Spring He loved the trees he had played under as ...