Biographical note: MariusTimmann Mjaaland, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Introduction: "What then is the American, this new man?"--Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen -- Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire -- Fusions and confusions -- Rebellious dandies and political fictions -- American Minervas -- Section 2. Dangerous do…
Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups. Making use of an array of sour…
Sanford Goldberg examines the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world: through what they say or through their salient silences. He argues that this sort of knowledge poses a challenge to some cherished 'individualistic' assumptions in traditional …
This book concerns the role others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world. Two main forms of this reliance are examined: testimony cases, where a subject aims to acquire knowledge through accepting what another tells her; and cases involving "coverage," where a s…
'Also published under the title of Principle of social reconstruction, and written in response to the devastation of World War I, Why men fight lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. He argues that the individualistic approach …
Applying current narrative criticism to the study of the Apocalypse, Hongisto underscores the oral nature of the narrative vis-a-vis the roles of the readers/ listeners. Experiencing the Apocalypse at the Limits of Alterity probes the interplay of meaning creation as readers/lis…
"As societies world-wide become increasingly multicultural, so the issues of identity, belonging, tolerance and racism become imperative to understand in their various forms. This book adds to the discussion by examining the interface between the lived, personal experiences of p…
"As societies world-wide become increasingly multicultural, so the issues of identity, belonging, tolerance and racism become imperative to understand in their various forms. This book adds to the discussion by examining the interface between the lived, personal experiences of p…