Introduction / Hanna S. Kassab and Jonathan D. Rosen -- Part I. The major challenges that the Obama administration faces in the region -- The Obama administration's policy challenges in the western hemisphere / Ted Galen Carpenter -- Part II. Obama's foreign policy in the Caribb…
Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.
"The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, allow an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the conte…
"Bremmer's goal is to present a picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He begins with the archaic age and Homeric epics, where the psyche is a 'free' soul which belongs to an individual and can leave the body -- in dreams, swoons, …
Oorspr. titel: Nouvelles maladies de l'âme.
"These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in her latest psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Drawing on her fifteen years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of polit…
