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A re-examination of the evidence about citizens' capacity for self-governance and what it means for the future of democratic politics, from both empirical and normative perspectives. Are ordinary citizens capable of governing themselves? For more than three decades, social scientists have accumulate...
A re-examination of the evidence about citizens' capacity for self-governance and what it means for...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-00927-8
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Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century F...
Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-02779-1
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Emil Staiger (1908-1987), a native of Switzerland, was one of the foremost scholars in the field of literary studies. Grundbegriffe der Poetik is a monument in the history of literary criticism that has been unavailable to the English reader until now. Of Staiger's works, Poetics is probably the mos...
Emil Staiger (1908-1987), a native of Switzerland, was one of the foremost scholars in the field of...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-02780-7
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May offers a clear and cogent response to the question which other philosophers have most often found troubling in Foucault's work: how can Foucault's genealogies of power/knowledge in the human sciences be justified?-Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University"In spite of the immense industry of Foucault sc...
May offers a clear and cogent response to the question which other philosophers have most often foun...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-02782-1
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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestle...
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contempora...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-02510-0
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Kathleen Bruhn is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Kathleen Bruhn is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Santa...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-02511-7
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Long neglected as a marginal and eccentric figure, Thomas Hoccleve (1367-1426) wrote some of the most sophisticated and challenging poetry of the late Middle Ages. Full of gossip and autobiographical detail, his work has made him immensely useful to modern scholars, yet Hoccleve the poet has remaine...
Long neglected as a marginal and eccentric figure, Thomas Hoccleve (1367-1426) wrote some of the mos...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-02784-5
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A very thorough and up-to-date study of death and burial in early medieval society. -Guy Halsall, Birkbeck College, University of LondonThe relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter B...
A very thorough and up-to-date study of death and burial in early medieval society. -Guy Halsall, Bi...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-02785-2
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