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Explanation and Power: The Control of Human Behavior Explanation and Power The Control of Human Behavior Morse Peckham 1988 Spring
Property Property Alan Ryan 1988 Spring
Covers the political and ethical aspects of the institution of ownership.
Discerning the Subject Discerning the Subject Paul Smith 1988 Spring
A critique of the debates on the status of the “subject.”
Critique of Cynical Reason Critique of Cynical Reason Peter Sloterdijk 1988 Spring
A philosophical treatise which finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture.
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 1987 Fall
A positive exercise in the affirmative, “nomad” thought called for in its companion volume, Anti-Oedipus. This series of essays address war and death, territoriality and the anthropology of groups, model theory, and psychosis.
Popular Culture in America Popular Culture in America Paul Buhle, Editor 1987 Fall
Social Figures: George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation Social Figures George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation Daniel Cottom 1987 Spring
Centers on the discourse of the liberal intellectual as exemplified in the novels of George Eliot, whose awareness of her aesthetic and social task was keener than that of most Victorian writers.
The Unremarkable Wordsworth The Unremarkable Wordsworth Geoffrey H. Hartman 1987 Spring
Fifteen essays draw upon a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches, from psychoanalysis to structuralism, from deconstruction to phenomenology. ". . . in teaching us to read Wordsworth it teaches us how to read." --The Wordsworth Circle
From Topic to Tale: Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages From Topic to Tale Logic and Narrativity in the Middle Ages Eugene Vance 1987 Spring
Shows how a rhetorical tradition was transformed into a textual one and ends with a discussion of the relationship between discourse and society.
Possibility and Necessity: Volume 2 Possibility and Necessity Volume 2 Jean Piaget None None
Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory Choices An Introduction to Decision Theory Michael D. Resnik 1987 Spring
Provides a broad yet rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of decision theory (the collection of mathematical, logical, and philosophical theories of decision making by rational individuals) that pays particular attention to matters of philosophical and logical interest.
Criticism and Truth Criticism and Truth Roland Barthes Katrine Pilcher Keunemen, Editor 1987 Spring
Structured as a two-part essay. Part one opens with Barthes’s point by point dissection of Sorbonne philologist Raymond Picard’s “old criticism.” Part two is devoted primarily to the author’s own theory of criticism.
Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger Readings in Interpretation Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger Andrzej Warminski 1987 Spring
Institutes a rethinking of history, theory, philosophy, literature and the way they relate to one another in critical reading. "Meticulous and challenging . . . well worth reading." --Southern Humanities Review
Essentials of Cardiovascular Physiology Essentials of Cardiovascular Physiology Harvey V. Sparks Jr. and Thom W. Rooke 1987 Spring
Male Fantasies: Volume 2: Volume 2 Male Fantasies: Volume 2 Volume 2 Klaus Theweleit 1989 Spring
These two volumes center upon the fantasies that preoccupied a group of men who played a crucial role in the rise of Nazism. Theweleit draws upon the novels, letters, and autobiographies of these proto-fascists and their contemporaries, seeking out and reconstructing their images of women. Heavily illustrated with cartoons, advertisements, engravings, and posters of the era.