Penn State University Press: 456 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Widely regarded as the father of American psychology, William James is by any measure a mammoth presence on the stage of pragmatist philosophy. But despite his indisputable influence on philosophical thinkers of all genders, men remain the movers and shakers in the Jamesian universe—while women...
Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
The Subtle Art of Division
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed...
by John Miles Foley
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1999
In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in order...
Missing Socrates
Problems of Plato's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Plato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious and paradoxical the Platonic texts become. What does it mean to study Plato, not philosophically as...
The Truman Administration and Bolivia
Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The United States emerged from World War II with generally good relations with the countries of Latin America and with the traditional Good Neighbor policy still largely intact. But it wasn’t too long before various overarching strategic and ideological priorities began to undermine those good relations...
Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs
How Public Opinion Affects Presidential Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Do American presidents consider public opinion when making foreign policy decisions? In a democracy, it is generally assumed that citizen preferences inform public policy. For a variety of reasons, however, foreign policy has always posed a difficult challenge for democratic governance. In Paying...
Ireland and the Problem of Information
Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Though the work of Irish writers has been paramount in conventional accounts of literary modernism, Ireland itself only rarely occupies a meaningful position in accounts of modernism’s historical trajectory. With an itinerary moving not simply among Dublin, Belfast, and London but also Paris, New...
Do the Poor Count?
Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by...
John Paul Stevens and the Constitution
The Search for Balance
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
A good pragmatist's constitutional theory is inseparable from the legal disputes out of which it arises. John Paul Stevens's theory, that of deciding individual cases well instead of applying constitutional principles in the abstract to cases by category, thus lends itself to being studied in its...
Anthropocene Reading
Literary History in Geologic Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and...
by Ben Schachter
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism...
by Elizabeth Lapina
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries....
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how...
Nothing but Love in God's Water
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression. From the spirituals of southern fields and...