Shapes of Philosophical History

Manuel, Frank E.

Stanford University Press

Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism

Politics & Social Sciences

BADIOU, ALAIN

Philosophy

The Judicial Decision

Richard A. Wasserstrom

This book takes stock of the major theoretical schools which hold sway over literary studies in the present age. Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, and Semiotics are discussed in relation to their historical context and their present significance.

Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century: Structuralism Marxism Aesthetics of Reception Semiotics

Literature & Fiction

Fokkema, Douwe Wessel

History & Criticism

A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats.

Jeffares, A.Norman

Poetry

The pattern of the Chinese past

History

Mark Elvin

Asia

Seventeenth-century England has been richly documented by th lives of kings and their great ministers, the nobility and gentry, and bishops and preachers, but we have very little firsthand information on ordinary citizens.This unique portrait of the life, thought, and attitudes of a London Puritan turner (lathe worker) is based on the extraordinary personal papers of Nehemiah Wallington―2,600 surviving pages of memoirs, religious reflections, political reportage, and letters. Coming to maturity during the reign of James I, Wallington witnessed the persecution of Puritans during Archbishop Laud’s ascendancy under Charles I, welcomed what he thought would be the godly revolution brought by the Long Parliament, and watched with increasing disillusionment the falure of that dream under the Rump republic and the Cromwellian Protectorate.The author reconstructs Wallington’s inner world, allowing us to see what an ordinary man made of a lifetime of reading Puritan doctrine and listening to the sermons of Puritan preachers. For the first time we can penetrate the mind of one of those who made up the London mob calling for the end of episcopacy and the death of the Earl of Strafford in 1641, who welcomed the revolution, if not the war that followed, and who finally came to approve the death of his king.

Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London

Seaver, Paul S.

Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services. 
First published in 1962.

Death, Property and the Ancestors: Study of the Mortuary Customs of the Lo Dagaa of West Africa

Goody, Jack

Sociology

Translated, with an Assessment by T. H. Croxall. Includes Appendices. Part of the Library of Modern Religious Thought series.

Johannes Climacus: Or, De Omnibus Dubitandum Est

Kierkegaard

Literary

1. This is the first fulllength study of Baudrillards work in English. Baudrillard is a very trendy figure, so this book should do well 2. Kellner has written a sober and critical introduction to the work of this much discussed French thinker.

Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond.

Douglas Kellner

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