A distinguished history and author of Washington's Crossing analyzes the concepts of liberty and freedom through visions, images, and symbols throughout the folk history of those ideas, showing how they are popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture rather than politica…
Addressing the question of whether, and if so how, philosophy can come to the assistance of a culture mired in bad sense, this book begins with a critique of the reductionistic approach to thinking that is promoted by modern science. It moves toward a novel view of reason and re…
The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often left murky or taken for granted. Potter offers a tour of the central themes raised by these questions. The …
In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsing, Italian Communist Party (PCI) head Achille Occhetto shocked his party in 1989 by insisting that the PCI jettison its old name and become something new. This dramatic book tel…
by Vries, Ad de, Vries, Ad de, Vries, Arthur de
"This dictionary supplies associations which have been evoked by plants, animals, gems, objects and concepts throughout the history of Western civilization, from the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt to the poetry of Dylan Thomas. It supplies background information from fields which …
Publisher's Description: "In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his concept of "Communitas," which in the meantime has become famous. He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond…
