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Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers known as the British Empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers but Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the culmination of the British empiricist...

This is a study of an anonymous ancient work, originally composed in Greek, titled   Joseph and Aseneth. Although relatively unknown outside of scholarly circles, the story is remarkable because of its focus on a female character and its absence of overt misogyny. It has traditionally been viewed as an early 2nd-century C.E. conversion story of...

In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard        on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark        volume demonstrates how the conditions and styles of middle class life--originating        from elements of both the newer lower and upper classes--represent modern...

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Cooey offers a feminist perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice, building on the work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain (OUP 1985). By examining evidence ranging from the novels of Toni Morrison to the paintings of Frida Kahlo, she brings forward a new understanding of the religious importance of...

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