Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns ...

The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative phase ...

The combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance. By a careful and ...

As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive ...

How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of ...

A noted Russian sinologue, Iulian Shchutskii tried to find out how the I Ching was put together and what its terms meant when they were written. Accordingly ...

No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of modernism ...

While interest in Kant's philosophy has increased in recent years, very little of it has focused on his theory of science. This book gives a general account ...