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Describes the role of traditional Jewish texts in the development of modern Yiddish literature, as well as the closely related development of modern Hebrew literature.
Reconsiders the negative status attributed to forgetting in both academic and popular discussions of public memory. Demonstrates how a community may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of its shared past.
Describes the role of traditional Jewish texts in the development of modern Yiddish literature, as well as the closely related development of modern Hebrew literature.
Essays by eight philosophers, working in the Continental and American pragmatist philosophical traditions, that address the issue of race, its social construction and myth, and the problems it raises on a daily basis.
Analyzes the relationship between twelfth-century French material culture, especially with regard to attire and personal adornment, and the compositional and narrative techniques used in the emerging genre of courtly verse romance.
Analyzes the relationship between twelfth-century French material culture, especially with regard to attire and personal adornment, and the compositional and narrative techniques used in the emerging genre of courtly verse romance.
The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution
Examines the ramifications of the fear of imminent death that many National Assembly deputies felt as they anticipated an attack from the soldiers of Louis XVI in the days preceding the fall of the Bastille, at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice
Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls “democratic professionalism” to build bridges ......
The World of Magda Portal, with a Selection of Her Poems
Examines the life and poetry of Magda Portal, a major figure in Latin American revolutionary politics. Includes a selection of poems available for the first time in English translation.
