Monthly Archives: February 2011

Gold Winner, 2008 Book of the Year Award, ForeWord Magazine About This Book About the Authors Reviews Table of Contents An essential American dream—equal access to higher education—was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after … Continue reading →

A Guardian Book of the Year, 2010 First Things Notable Book of 2010 About This Book About the Authors Reviews On the one hundredth anniversary of the death of William James, Robert Richardson, author of the magisterial William James: In … Continue reading →

About This Book About the Authors The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that … Continue reading →

About This Book About the Authors Reviews About Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant … Continue reading →

A Sunday Herald Book of the Year, 2010 About This Book About the Authors Reviews Table of Contents When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he … Continue reading →

About This Book About the Authors Reviews Table of Contents Informal in tone yet serious in content, this book serves as a lively and accessible guide for readers discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and … Continue reading →

About This Book About the Authors Reviews Kant and Milton brings to bear new evidence and long-neglected materials to show the importance of Kant’s encounter with Milton’s poetry to the formation of Kant’s moral and aesthetic thought. Sanford Budick reveals … Continue reading →

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