The Autonomous Male of Adam Smith (Oklahoma Project for Discourse & Theory)

Business & Money

Justman, Stewart

Economics

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

The Autonomous Male of Adam Smith (The Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, 14)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This text weighs the influence of psychology on culture, traces the therapeutic model to its roots, and examines the connection between psychology and the marketing of goods and ideas. The author finds that the influence of psychology has saturated contemporary life both public and private. The book tracks the expansion of the therapeutic project from its beginnings in Locke and considers reflections on and of psychology in a number of authors, including Orwell, Conrad and Dostoevsky.

The Psychological Mystique (Rethinking Theory)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Northwestern University Press

The Springs of Liberty takes up questions of literary history and theory and explores sources of power harnessed by modern political doctrines and the journalism that conveys them to the public. These forces of opinion are traced to a tradition deeper and older than either: satire. In that tradition--its power, diversity, and license--the author locates the spirit of free speech.

The Springs of Liberty: The Satiric Tradition and Freedom of Speech (Rethinking Theory)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Literature and Human Equality (Rethinking Theory)

When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are "leveled with the rest of the world"--now that's a different story. In this ambitious work, Stewart Justman ranges across Western literature from the Iliad and the Odyssey through Cervantes and Shakespeare to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky to show how such a leveling not only changed the appearance of literature, but made possible new ways of constructing a tale. Only when influenced by the principle of equality does a narrative deliberately deny readers knowledge beyond those they are reading about--privileged knowledge. This book argues that such a turn, in the hands of masters of the novel, changed narrative itself into an exploration of the limits of knowledge; that the portrayal of persons unknown to history transformed the novel into an investigation of the unknown. If the novel is the literary form of limited knowledge, the fullest expression of that form is found in the great fictional experiments of the nineteenth century, the age when the social question--the question of human equality--broke upon the world. Justman looks into some of those experiments for their own sake, but also for the light they cast on the nature and history of the novel. Focusing on Great Expectations, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilych, and The Brothers Karamazov, Justman explores what happens when we, as readers, are denied knowledge not only for the sake of suspense, but because ignorance belongs to what we have in common, the human condition.

History & Criticism

Stewart Justman presents Western literature from Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, to show how they changed the appearance of literature with new ways of constructing a tale.

'...a new and important reading of Mill that bridges several disciplines. It is essential reading for anybody concerned about the delicate fabric of our republican tradition....The work is scholarly, insightful, and written at a level that makes its important message accessible to student, scholar, and layperson.'-Scott G. McNall, University of Toledo

The Hidden Text of Mill's Liberty

Philosophy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Physical description: 120p. : ill., figs. ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Breaches of international law. Atrocities. Crimes against humanity.

The Jewish Holocaust for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book)

History

World

Writers & Readers

How is it that people in search of healing were at one time able to experience the therapeutic effects of "animal magnetism"?  The evidence suggests that those who went in for treatments we would now call placebos didn't feign their sensations but felt what they supposed others felt; they reacted as social beings. In one way or another, so do we today. But while the feeling of membership buoys us and may contribute to health, that is not all it can do, medically speaking. In this study a humanist looks at the placebo effect, taking into account both its history and its ambiguity and bringing out the more questionable potential of some health fashions, trends, and movements of our own time.

To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect

Science & Math

University of California Medical Humanities Press

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo effect.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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The Autonomous Male of Adam Smith (Oklahoma Project for Discourse & Theory)

The Autonomous Male of Adam Smith (The Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, 14)

The Psychological Mystique (Rethinking Theory)

The Springs of Liberty: The Satiric Tradition and Freedom of Speech (Rethinking Theory)

Literature and Human Equality (Rethinking Theory)

Literature and Human Equality (Rethinking Theory)

The Hidden Text of Mill's Liberty

The Jewish Holocaust for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book)

To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs