But it is relatively small compared to this parasitic outgrowth, which has become so colossal that, as I said, quantity has ...

Germany’s centrality for modern tragedy is also, symmetrically, modern tragedy’s centrality in the development of German culture. Initially, as it happens, this relationship was an antagonistic one, ...

At university in Heidelberg and Marburg—studying philosophy with Heidegger, then with Jaspers, and involved in a series of love affairs—Arendt opted for a dissertation on Augustinian notions of ...

In his Inquiry Steuart had postulated a threefold process of development in history from pastoral nomadic, through agrarian to modern society characterized by the exchange economy. The change from one ...

To begin with, there are two observations to be made. First, the reader should be warned that this review of Gabriel Piterberg’s The Returns of Zionism, a work by a convinced anti-Zionist, has been ...

Christopher Lasch, cultural historian and scourge of the politically correct, died last year and so his final book is published posthumously.footnote 1 Like his earlier works, its range of subject ...

Winner of the best director award at Cannes in 2000—not always a favourable distinction—Edward Yang has gained a wide international audience only with his latest film Yi Yi. Outside Taiwan itself, his ...

The story follows three friends, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, who inhabit a peculiar social order. When we first meet them, they are children living at what appears to be a privileged English boarding ...

Much of what is now mainstream political science tends to be rather boring. Following the lead of American departments and journals, research on issues of real intrinsic interest, such as the changing ...

Prospects for Trump’s White House.