Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennial dilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminative or interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine archetypes that are signals of a repressed tradition in conflict with patriarchal culture. Pratt suggests that the archetypal patterns in women's fiction provide a ritual expression containing the potential for the reader's personal transformation and that women's novels constitute literary variations on preliterary folk practices that are available in the realm of imagination even when they have long been absent from day-to-day life.

Archetypal patterns in women's fiction

Pratt, Annis

Harvester Press

A reprinting of the important novel by Raymond Federman.

The twofold vibration

Federman, Raymond

Hegel's social and political thought: The philosophy of objective spirit

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Contribucion fundamental al estudio de la revolucion realizada por Galileo en la mecanica, la cual constituye el punto de partida indispensable para la comprension de su obra y de las decisivas repercusiones de ella en el pensamiento cientifico y filosofico del siglo xvii.

Galileo Studies (European Philosophy and the Human Sciences)

Biographies & Memoirs

Koyré, Alexandre

John Mepham (transl.)

Professionals & Academics

Leading scholars place Piaget's theory of the development and nature of knowledge in the context of twentieth-century European thought, and compare his views with those of Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Foucault, and writers of the Frankfurt school. Piaget, Philosophy, and the Human Sciences surveys Piaget's work from a number of angles. General discussions of the main conceptual oppositions of this theory are balanced with more specific debates. Links between Piagetian and Freudian theory are explored, as are links between Piaget's theory of self-knowledge, Foucault's account of discursive knowledge practices, and Lacan's views on the symbolic power of language.

Piaget, philosophy, and the human sciences

Hugh J. Silverman

Political theory and political science: Studies in the methodology of political inquiry

Landau, Martin

Politics & Government

Marxism and Freedom from 1776 Until Today

In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marx's analysis of history. Using as her point of departure the Industrial and French Revolutions, the European upheavals of 1848, the American Civil War, and the Paris Commune of 1871, Dunayevskaya shows how Marx, inspired by these events, adapted Hegel's philosophy to analyze the course of history as a dialectical process that moves "from practice to theory." The essence of Marx's philosophy, as Dunayevskaya points out, is the human struggle for freedom, which entails the gradual emergence of a proletarian revolutionary consciousness and the discovery through conflict of the means for realizing complete human freedom.But freedom for Marx meant freedom not only from capitalist economic exploitation but also from all political restraints. Continuing her historical analysis, Dunayevskaya reveals how completely Marx's original conception of freedom was perverted through its adaptations by Stalin in Russia and Mao in China, and the subsequent erection of totalitarian states. The exploitation of the masses persisted under these regimes in the form of a new "state capitalism."Yet despite the profound derailment of Marxist political philosophy in the twentieth century, Dunayevskaya points to developments such as the Hungarian revolt of 1956, and the Civil Rights struggles in the United States as signs that the indomitable quest for freedom on the part of the downtrodden cannot be forever repressed. The Hegelian dialectic of events propelled by the spirit of the masses thus moves on inexorably with the hope for the future achievement of political, economic, and social freedom and equality for all.

Marxism and freedom from 1776 until today

DUNAYEVSKAYA, RAYA

Philosophy and revolution: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library. Boards are gently worn, with fading to spine. 239 pages.

Heidegger Critique: A Critical Examination of the Existential Phenomenology of Martin Heidegger

Waterhouse, Roger

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