Oxford University Press

A long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the 7th to the late 4th centuries BCE. Employing the evidence of ancient testimonies, Andrea Rotstein also considers the more general question of how literary genres were perceived in ancient Greece....

This monograph on Descartes'  Meditations shows that it is as much about pedagogy as it is about truth. Every single claim of the  Meditations is advanced from the first-person point-of-view of Descartes' meditator, who is not a Cartesian at the start of inquiry. Cunning's reading shows that The Meditations is the transcript of his cognitive...

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The U.S. immigration debate has raised some of the most difficult questions our        nation has ever faced: How can we preserve the integrity of sovereign borders while        also respecting the dignity of human beings? How should a border-that imaginary line        in the sand-be humanely and effectively maintained? And how should we regard...

The Dasam Granth is a 1,428-page anthology of diverse compositions attributed to the tenth Guru of Sikhism, Guru Gobind Singh, and a topic of great controversy among Sikhs. The controversy stems from two major issues: a substantial portion of the Dasam Granth relates tales from Hindu mythology, suggesting a disconnect from normative Sikh theology;...