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A comprehensive account of Hegel's conception of recognition as the general pattern of ethical life. The author explores Hegel's intersubjective concept of spirit and shows how the idea of recognition illuminates his understanding of crime, morality, the family and war.

William S Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. This book places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. It gives an account of a man whose achievements have a major influence on American art and culture.

Investigating the later music of Franz Schubert, this book explores the rich terrain of his impromptus and last piano sonatas. It explains how Schubert's view of his own life may well have shaped his music in the years shortly before his death.

"The Satyricon of Petronius", a comic novel written in the first century AD, is famous primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." In this discussion of Petronius' masterful use of parody, the author offers an interpretation of the "Satyricon" as a whole.

Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.

Adapting the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge his own discourse about music, the author of this treatise demonstrates how European music of the 19th century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the make-up of self and society.

The five centuries which have passed since the discovery of the New World have not diminished the overwhelming importance or strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and native Americans. This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary approach to this meeting of cultures.

Discusses the role of torture in Iranian politics. This book provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and public confession under the Islamic Republican governments. It is based on Amnesty International reports, prison literature, and victims' accounts.

Traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of women who challenged the ruthless dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

Explores the 'reinvention' of ethnicity in the lives of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of European immigrants, asking how their ethnic heritage is lived, maintained and celebrated.

An examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape in the 20th century together with a strategy for reversing America's automobile dependency.

Traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.

Hesse has led a long and sometimes eventful life with marital tensions, travel controversy, crises, even some thoughts of suicide and a period of time as a student in a home for retarded and unmanageable. Hesse was a prolific author for some 60 years. In this book, he tells his story.

Presents an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II, from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC) of the late 1940s to the South African Student Organization (SASO) and the Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s'.

Scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. This work shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities.

Suitable for readers who are accustomed to the self-congratulatory myth of America as a beacon of liberty to which the 'huddled masses' of the world look with longing.

Presents an exploration of recording consciousness and compositional process from the perspective of those who make records. This title examines the crucial roles played by recording technologies in the construction of rock music and shows how songwriters, musicians, engineers, and producers contribute to the creative project.

This study attempts to unlock the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one Islamic country to another. The book analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of the different historical bases of state power in various societies.

Explores the nature of medieval religious democracy, including discussion of the community, social services, local government, worship, education, interfaith relations, relations between religion and the state, and the relations between the communities and the state.

A study that examines writings by African patients in asylums and the reports of officials, doctors, and others to discuss the meaning of madness in Nigeria, the development of colonial psychiatry, and the connections between them. It shows how contradictions inherent in colonialism were articulated in both asylum policy and psychiatric theory.

This study focuses on James Legge (1815-1897), one of the most important 19th-century figures in the cultural exchange between China and the West. The narrative illuminates the era in which Legge lived as well as the surroundings in which he worked.

Explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public grappling with its commemoration. This title considers the ways Americans have struggled to renegotiate the meanings of national identity, patriotism, community, and the place of the soldier, in the aftermath of a war.

The story of Senator Joseph McCarthy's rise to unprecedented power and the decline of his influence is a dramatic one. This title documents the process by which a clever, power hungry individual came to mislead and manipulate members of Congress and the American public and to damage countless lives.

During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. This volume examines the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.

Contributing essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action, this book presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in "Personal Identity".

Only one tribe of American Indians is known ever to have successfully revolted against the empire of Spain and to have thwarted all subsequent attempts by the Spaniards to reconquer them: the Jivaro (hee'-va-ro), the untsuri suarii of eastern Ecuador. This book is about their culture.

This text argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. It shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license.