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Tolerance-though seen to be necessary on a world divided by deep differences-often strikes us as grudgingly given and resentfully received. Conceived more widely, however, tolerance can be seen to occupy the difficult, and contested, terrain between merely putting up with and accepting others.

This text examines the theme of heroic exile and return in Greek poetic tradition, from the archaic epic of Homer to modern Greek folk poetry and song. The author argues that the hero's reputation, his glory, is managed by women - especially his wife and mother.

Avnon analyses Buber's corpus of mature writings, revealing the radical nature of his responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence. The book re-examines conventional notions of the role of language, thought, and writing.

Responding to volatile criticisms frequently levelled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have extended on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought.

The efficacy of the American two-party political system has been debated since the nation's founding. This text asks readers to decide for themselves. It contains an outline of the history, evolution and status of the debate and a collection of primary documents.

Many historians condemn our nation's founders as hypocrites who failed to live up to their own enlightened principles. Political scientist Thomas West debunks numerous myths and demonstrates why our founders were indeed sincere in their belief of universal human rights and in their commitment to democracy.

Paying special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, Marion Montgomgery explores the disorientation of image and methaphor for reality. Two species of "romanticism" emerge: that of the poet and that of the scientist.

This text presents two critical views on religion in politics. Whilst Audi argues that citizens in a democracy should distinguish religious and secular considerations, Wolterstorff responds that religious elements are appropriate and indispensable for the vitality of a pluralistic democracy.

Lowell Edmunds combines two readings of the "Oedipus at Colonus" to arrive at a fresh way of looking at Greek tragedy. He sets forth a semiotic theory of theatrical space and then applies his theory to the visual and spacial dimensions of the "Oedipus at Colonus".

The second volume of collected essays by Ernest Fortin deals with the relationship between religion and civil society in a Christian context. Sections include natural law, natural rights and social justice and Augustine and Aquinas on Christianity and politics.

In this radical reinterpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Walter E. Wehrle demonstrates that developmental theories of Aristotle are based on a faulty assumption: that the fifth chapter of Categories ("substance") is an early theory of metaphysics that Aristotle later abandoned.

Providing a study of Cuban migration to the United States, this work analyses its political dynamics and character. It extends the discussion with an examination of the Bush and Clinton administrations' responses to recent events in Cuba.

This collection of essays investigates Plantiga's warrant and its contribution to contemporary epistemology. It provides a statement of the variety of approaches to the nature of warrant within contemporary epistemology and to the connections between epistemology and metaphysics.

This collection of essays develops the theory of social groups as "plural subjects". Gilbert argues that one must go beyond the prevailing "game theoretic" picture of people acting as independent individuals, to incorporate them as plural subjects bound together by joint commitments.

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Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith offers here a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights. The book shows what political freedom is and demonstrates why it should be protected by rights.

The regime of Juan Per-n is one of the most studied topics of Argentina's contemporary history. This book provides a fresh perspective on the intriguing Argentinian leader. It focuses on the cultural and symbolic dimensions of Per-nism and populism, and explores the creation of myths, symbols, and rituals that constituted his political imagery.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the urban masses played in shaping political change as Mexico struggled to become a stable, independent nation state in the nineteenth century. The author examines the political world of Mexico.

In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no-less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana.

A collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The figure of Juan Manuel de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the 19th century. This work studies the forces which made and sustained Rosas, and examines the roots of the caudillo tradition in Argentina through exploring his career.

The anti- Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune. The author describes the origins and trajectory of the anti-Vietnam War movement in America. He also focuses on the way it affected policy and public opinion.

More than 800 men lost their lives and 2,700 were wounded. Confederate General Thomas J Jackson earned his legendary nickname Stonewall here.

The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its outcome, it was an especially critical juncture.

Probes into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book illuminates the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico. It is suitable for courses on Mexican history and Latin American film.

Broaches themes such as culture, politics, impenetrable tension and post-1945 America.

In the winter of 1909, a political bombshell exploded in tsarist Russia. Scandal swept not only the empire but the entire world with the exposure of the secret life of one man. Newspaper headlines introduced him as a twentieth-century Judas.