Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8047-6003-4 (cloth: alk. paper) — ISBN: 978-0-8047-6275-5 (pbk.: alk. paper). Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major...
Chicago University Press, 1992. — VIII, 174 p. Preface, by Ronald Beiner Texts by Arendt Postscriptum to Thinking Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy Imagination Interpretive Essay Hannah Arendt on Judging, by Ronald Beiner Notes
University of California Press, 2001. — xiii, 326 p. — ISBN: 0-520-22525-2. This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being, to what the young Marx called immediate sensuous consciousness.” It deals with what, for the Romans, was the life that mattered, the life of matter—and the life of matter was honor. If my...
San Francisco, 1986. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-0-87286-190-9. Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality—Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and...
Lausanne: Skira, 1955. — 139 p. Bataille’s book Lacaux has not received much scholarly attention. This essay attempts to fill in a gap in the literature by explicating Bataille’s scholarship on Lascaux to his body of writing as a whole — an exercise that, arguably, demonstrates the significance of the book and, consequently, the shortsightedness of its neglect by critics who...
Blackwell Publishing, 2007. — xiii+159 p. In setting out to write ‘‘a brief history of ancient astrology’’ I am in effect making four initial commitments. The first, brevity, will be easy enough to meet; and if I do not meet it myself, my editors will meet it for me. The third and fourth, defining the book’s subject matter, ‘‘ancient astrology,’’ are not very difficult either....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. — XX, 512, 23 p.
These scenes from life in ancient Greece focus on a young Athenian returning from abroad. He is involved in a series of adventures that illustrate everyday life in Athens, Corinth and other towns. One of the most interesting parts of this fictional biography is the author's 'excursuses', essays on various subjects relevant...
Translated and edited by H. B. Richardson and Edward Payson Crowell. — Boston, Ginn & Heath, 1884. — 152 p.
The present Outline History of Roman Literature is specially designed to meet the wants of schools. It is intended primarily to contain what a gymnasium student needs to know, and at the same time all such material taken'from Roman literary history as can well be employed...
Tubingen, 1898. — VII, 594 s.
Diese hervorragende und umfassende populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung (der 2. Auflage, Tübingen 1893) des römischen Lebens im Altertum widerspiegelt in 11 Kapiteln, durch zahlreiche Tafeln und Textabbildungen unterstützt, alle sozialen und sittlichen Verhältnisse des Imperium Romanum. Da der Autor auf primäre Quellen zurückgreift, erhält der...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. — x, 497 p. — ISBN: 0-674-81092-9. Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep...
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010. — xv+219 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-2291-7 (hbk.: alk. paper) This book is a story about fantasy and the reality that lurks behind these fantasies. It is a history of facts and factoids. Its subject matter is the erotic desires that have been projected onto the cultures of classical antiquity. This work examines the impact that sexual fantasies about...
New York: Routledge, 1997. — xvi, 173 p. — ISBN: 0-415-16147-9. There are two competing schools of thought about the nature of rule following. One is usually called 'individualism', the other 'collectivism'. For the individualist, a rule in its simplest form is just a standing intention; for the collectivist, it is a shared convention or a social institution. There are also two...
Cambridge, University Press, 1901. — 221 p. The present volume is intended to bring before English readers the description and theory of education for the young which is found in the earlier books of Plato's Republic. The volume ends with the account of a commonwealth considered as a moral organism, which explains the reason and purpose of that earlier education. It must be...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — xvi, 345 p. This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes, and how wartime experience influenced postwar economic growth. Leading...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — x, 252 p. This groundbreaking volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been neglected by historians, who have left it to specialists in literature and language....
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. — 224 p. What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films, and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This profusely illustrated book surveys the opportunities and the challenges of using images to understand...
Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press. 1993. — ix, 198 p. — ISBN: 0-8014-2861-0; 0-8014-8100-7. What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and updated in its...
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004. — xiv, 210 р. In this magisterial new study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should be regarded as a distinct period. One major theme of the book is...
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1978. — 400 р. — ISBN: 0-06-131928-7 The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have...
Cambridge: Polity Press, and Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. — vii+152 p. This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. Burke argues that this movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called the 'new history'. Burke...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0-691-09431-4; ISBN: 0-691-02838-9 (pbk) In this substantially revised edition of his widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyzes the...
Ithaca, New York. Cornell University Press, 1997. — х, 246 p. — ISBN: 0-8014-3491-2; ISBN: 0-8014-8492-8 The aim of this collection of twelve essays is to discuss and illustrate some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its 'classic' form, exemplifi ed in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. This...
3rd edition. London. A & C Black, 1920. — 270 p. Note on the sources Philosophers Doxographers Doxographers proper Biographical doxographers Biographers Chronologists The Milesian school Thales Anaximander Anaximenes Science and religion Pythagoras of Samos Xenophanes of Kolophon Herakleitos of Ephesos Parmenides of Elea The way of truth The way of belief Empedokles of Akragas...
Degree of Ph. d., Faculty of Arts. April, 1987. — vi, 596 p. Supervisors, Professor D.M. MacDowell and Mr. A.F. Garvie The scope of the thesis, as given in the title, requires some explanation: 404 B C is largely a nominal cut-off point, since, although authors whose entire oeuvre falls after that date are excluded, except for incidental references, it seemed better to consider...
Trans. Timonthy J. Tomasik. — Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998. xiv + 292 pp. This social history of “making do” is based on microhistories that move from the private sphere (of dwelling, cooking, and homemaking) to the public (the experience of living in a neighborhood). The second volume of this magnum opus delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of...
Translated by Brain Massumi. — Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: University of Minnesota Press. 1986. — xxi, 276 p. — ISBN: 0816614040 De Certeau’s essays are divided up into four broadly named parts, each of which contains three or four essays. The parts are, first, “The Return of the Repressed in Psychoanalysis,” the second is “Representation Altered by the Subject (Sixteenth and...
Transl. from French S. Rendall. — Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1988. — 229 p. — ISBN: 0-520-23699-8. Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces...
Transl. T. Conley. — New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. — xxviii, 368 p. — (European Perspectives). — Пер. изд.: L'ecriture de l'histoire / M. Certeau. — Paris, 1975. — ISBN: 0-231-05575-7. A leading intellectual and member of France's Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2003. — xiv+337 p. — ISBN: 0-521-83394-9; ISBN: 0-521-54175-1. Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. — XIX, 727 p.
Третья появляющаяся за послѣднія нѣсколько лѣтъ общая исторія византійскаго искусства, написанная крупнымъ спеціалистомъ. Она не упраздняетъ — скажемъ это съ самаго начала — предшествующіѳ труды гг. Г. Милье и Ш. Диля, но она несомнѣнно станетъ, наравнѣ съ ними, необходимою настольною книгою всякаго, кто занимаѳтся и интересуется...
Edited by Gil Anidjar. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. New York and London - vi + 436 p. — ISBN: 0-415-92400-6 — ISBN: 0-415-92401-4 (pbk.) Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political...
Poznan: Wydawnictwo Poznanskie, 2006, pp. 323. — ISBN: 83-7177-473-7. Spis tresci . Podziekowania. Wstep. Czesc I . Dyskusje o koncach historii. Historia akademicka a historia niekonwencjonalna. Problem kryzysu historii akademickiej. Ku historii nieantropocentrycznej. Czesc II . Hermeneutyka przejscia. Wspomnienia z Rosji Jana Zarno. Archeontologia martwego ciaIa. Argentynscy...
New York. Simon and Schuster; 2nd edition (1961) — 1962. — XXVII, 510 p. ISBN10: 1299781489 ISBN13: 978-1299781481 A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great...
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1891. — XXVI, 588 p.
It is generally considered that the most successful textbook on mediseval history in any language is M. Victor Duruy's Histoire dii Moyen Age. Its great merit consists in the fact that while it gives a very clear conception of the general currents of the period, it also gives a sufficient number of the facts and details of the...
University of California Press, 1992. — 667 p. ISBN10: 0520069579 ISBN13: 978-0520069572 This pioneering study of primary schools in the Russian countryside during the late tsarist period examines the contribution of education to the transition to modernity. The author links social, institutional, and cultural history, thus providing a multi-dimensional description of the...
Киев : Тип. Имп. Ун-та св. Владимира, 1906. - 435 с. Сборник статей посвящен 30-летию профессорской деятельности Дашкевича Н. П. и издан его учениками. Дашкевич, Николай Павлович (1852 - 1908) - историк и историк литературы. Учился на историко-филологическом факультете Киевского университета, где до смерти состоял профессором истории всеобщей литературы. Читал лекции и на...
New York: W.W. Norton, 1957. — 176 p. In writing this introduction to the archaeological and literary records of prehistoric Greece, I have had in mind readers who may not be prepared for critical consideration of these matters as presented in books which quote ancient authors in their original languages and refer to international academic publications. I have therefore omitted...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — xxi+506 p. — (Classical resources series / American Philological Association; no.5). — ISBN: 0-19-516185-8; 0-19-516186-6. This Casebook introduces the area of Roman law governing the most personal and urgent problems that free Romans normally confronted: the marital relationship, the power of fathers over their children, and the devolution of...
Milano: Vita e Pensiero - Largo Gemelli; Pubblicazioni della Università Cattolica, 1987. — XIX, 493 p. — ISBN: 88-343-2575-3. Questa Storia della filosofia antica - che a partire dalla quinta edizione (1987) ha pienamente attuato quell'immagine che ci proponevamo - è il frutto di oltre trent'anni di ricerche scientifiche e di altrettanti anni di parallela attività didattica....
Milano: Vita e Pensiero - Largo Gemelli; Pubblicazioni della Università Cattolica, 1987. — XVIII, 571 p. — ISBN: 88-343-2577-X. Questo terzo volume della Storia della filosofia antica contiene la trattazione dei sistemi e delle Scuole filosofiche dell'età ellenistica, nell'arco di tempo che va, all'incirca, dall'epoca della grande impresa di Alessandro Magno fino alla fine...
Milano: Vita e Pensiero - Largo Gemelli; Pubblicazioni della Università Cattolica, 1987. — XVII, 701 p. — ISBN: 88-343-2578-8. Questo quarto volume della Storia della filosofia antica contiene la trattazione delle scuole filosofiche e dei movimenti di pensiero filosofico-religioso nell'arco di tempo che va, salvo qualche eccezione, dalla fine dell'era pagana agli inizi del...
Con la collaborazione di Roberto Radice. — Milano: Vita e Pensiero - Largo Gemelli, 1989. — 605 p. — ISBN: 88-343-2574-5. L'idea di questo quinto volume che conclude la nostrtr Storia della filosofia antica è nata e cresciuta durante la composizione dei primi quattro e soprattutto in seguito al lavoro di revisione fatto per la riedizione dei medesimi. Ci è parso necessario, o...
Milano: Vita e Pensiero - Largo Gemelli; Pubblicazioni della Università Cattolica, 1988. — 637 p. — ISBN: 88-343-2579-6. Questo secondo volume della Storia della filosofia antica contiene la trattazione di Platone e di Aristotele, e quindi dei più cospicui vertici raggiunti dal pensiero dei Greci. A questi due autori abbiamo sempre dedicato numerose e ampie ricerche, ma di...
New York: Continuum, 2010. — xii+241 p. — ISBN: 978-1-8472-5054-4. This book is about women in ancient Egypt, and is mainly concerned with the Predynastic and Pharaonic periods, from 5000 bc to 300 bc. The later periods are only briefl y included as Egypt was increasingly subject to infl uence from Greece and Rome. There have been many fi ne books on women in ancient Egypt but...
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 343 p. — ISBN: 0-691-01178-8. This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. — 398 р.
Тысячу лет - от падения Римской империи до начала Ренессанса, средневековый период был временем огромных изменений, приведших к возникновению Западной цивилизации. В шести главах показывается, как центр политической и культурной жизни перемещался постепенно к северу, от мира средиземноморской Европы к Европе северной.
Oxford. Basil Blackwell, 1946. — xxix+510 p.
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture.
Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of...
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1947. — xv+446 p. Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek...
New York - Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1971. — viii+374 p. Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth,...
Publisher: Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1989. 376 pages. Language: English.
This is a study of the shaping and development of sociology in Western Europe, the United States, and Russia at the turn of the century, a period particularly important for the establishing of sociology as an independent discipline. The authors examine its development from social philosophy to sociology...