Oxford University Press

This study returns to the year in which    Ulysses and  The Waste land were published, to replace those works among the other cultural productions of the year, in the hopes of giving a new start to critical controversies about aesthetic modernism and modern culture. It makes the claim that relations between these are a good deal closer and more...

Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. He reveals unexplored tensions between the views of Quine and Davidson, and presents a powerful argument in favour of Quine and methodological naturalism....

Soldiers, Administration, and Public OrderHow did the Roman state keep law and order throughout its vast empire? The answer        is a mix of approaches, many of which involved Roman soldiers working as police        among civilians. Policing the Roman Empire draws together hundreds of scattered        sources to provide the first synoptic...

The view that an adequate semantics of natural language calls for some theory of events has been a focus of considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. This book offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with contributions by leading experts. A comprehensive introductory essay is included....

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What caused the New Left rebellion of the 1960s? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian argues that the "e;underground press"e; contributed to the New Left's growth and cultural organization in crucial, overlooked ways....