This is a major, single-volume introduction to the whole of Ancient Greek History. It covers the period from the Golden Age of Knossos and Mycenae to the incorporation of Greece into the Roman empire in the second century BC. The book combines narrative and socio-economic history to cover all regions of Greece, including territories on the edge of ...
A study of the range of reactions ordinary French citizens had to the German occupation during the Second World War. The dichotomy of resisters and collaborators is an inaccurate model, and Burrin explores the choices people made under extreme pressure. Most French citizens ending up practicing some form of "opportunistic accommodation," although ...
From a leading historian of Nazi Germany, a new exploration of the evolution of policies that led to the horror of the Holocaust. One of the continuing puzzles of twentieth-century history is how Germany moved from a kind of anti-Semitism that was despicable, but did not seem exceedingly dangerous, to the Final Solution. This question has been ...
In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt?s seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity?s industrialization of killing ...
A study of the range of reactions ordinary French citizens had to the German occupation during the Second World War. The dichotomy of resisters and collaborators is an inaccurate model, and Burrin explores the choices people made under extreme pressure. Most French citizens ending up practicing some form of "opportunistic accommodation," although ...
'a brilliant introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a major reinterpretation of the goals and effects of their thought. Engagingly written, this eminently accessible account deserves lasting popularity.' Choice 'This is a fine work, indispensable for any study of Socrates, the Sophists or Plato ...the interest of de Romilly's ...
This social history examines the way Nazism rose and took over German culture and looks at all levels of society--especially the middle class and the labor movements. It reveals how violence, nationalism, anti-Semitism, and terror played out among individuals and groups over two decades and how it affected those who supported and those who ...
This work collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on human beings, divinities, animals and other creatures who were said to have been both male and female. Luc Brisson provides a commentary that situates this source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections - from mythological, ...
Few figures from history have aroused as much admiration as Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king who, between 334 and 323 B.C., conquered the immense Persian Empire, led his army as far as India, and transformed the known world. Even in antiquity, he was an almost mythical hero, and over the centuries he has been remembered as the paragon of ...
In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical discontinuity with our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and psychological categories.
Descola, a student of Claude Levi-Strauss, offers the extraordinary story of his three years among the legendary Jivaro Indians of South America. Isolated in the Amazonian jungles, the Jivaro's head-hunting tradition has kept them safe for centuries from incursions by whites. The Spears of Twilight leads the reader through the joys and sorrows of ...
The conception of the Other has long been a problem for philosophers. Emmanuel Levinas, best known for his attention to the issue argued that the voyages of Odysseus represent the very nature of Western philosophy : "His adventure in the world is nothing but a return to his native land, a complacency with the Same, a misrecognition of the Other." ...
In this book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the present day. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France was little more than an ideological concept, despite its natural physical boundaries and long ...
In this ground-breaking new study, Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history. "[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessment from a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves, not just territorially, but ...
Writing, so often claimed as the necessary tool for social and individual progress, has another history. In classical Greece, writing was looked upon with suspicion, an attempt to subject the reader to the writer's will. The spread of books and their exaltation announced the victory of conquerors. In antiquity, writing was not written for a ...
This book offers an exciting new perspective on Shakespeare's relation to popular culture. Shakespeare's plays draw extensively on the events and traditions of Elizabethan festivals and holidays, mingling popular and aristocratic or royal forms of entertainment in ways that combine or clash to produce new meaning, offering surprises which ...
An original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, which focuses on the uses of the Chinese concept of Chi--meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential--as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.
This general introduction to Plato's political thought covers the main periods of Platonic thought, examining those dialogues that best show how Plato makes the city's unity the aim of politics and then makes the quest for that unity the aim of philosophy. From the psychological model (the city is like a great soul) to the physiological definition ...
In this study an art theorist explores a conception underlying the history of art. His basic idea is that the rigour of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: the cloud.
Exploring the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism, this book also examines some cliches about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason" or "idealism and materialism").
In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, Francois Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese stategies work in several domains (the battle-field, for ...
Son of a mortal king and an immortal Muse, Orpheus possessed a gift for music unmatched among humans; with his lyre he could turn the course of rivers, drown the fatal song of the Sirens, and charm the denizens of the underworld. The allure of his music speaks through the myths and stories of the Greeks and Romans, who tell of his mysterious ...
Herodotus's great work is not only an account of the momentous historical conflict between the Greeks and the Persians but also the earliest sustained exploration in the West of the problem of cultural difference. Francois Hartog asks fundamental questions about how Herodotus represented this difference. How did he and his readers understand the ...
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