Humiliation : and other essays on honor, social discomfort, and violence 9780801428814, 0801428815, 9780801481178, 0801481171

Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence [1 ed.] 0801428815, 9780801428814

How do we feel when our friend turns up with a holiday present and we have nothing ready to give in exchange? What lies

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On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition 9783110319774, 9783110319293

On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider progra

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Radical Conflict : Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication 9781498521789, 9781498521772

Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geop

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A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad 0813934753, 9780813934754

In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a

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Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam 9780773565906

Blema Steinberg adopts a psychoanalytical approach in her examination of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard

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The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hölderlin 9781503623866

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) has long been recognized as one of the greatest poets of the German language, but his im

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Reflections on Exile and Other Essays 9780674003026, 0674003020, 9780674009974, 0674009975

With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said’s writings have transformed the field of l

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On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays 9780226751498

A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing. Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; ho

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Rachel Weeping and Other Essays on Abortion 0836236025

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Bourgeois, Sans Culottes, And Other Frenchmen: Essays On The French Revolution In Honor Of John Hall Stewart 0889200971, 9780889200975

Few events are as complex as a social revolution--as the disputes among historians over the nature of the French Revolut

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