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The 14 essays included in this collection clearly illustrate the ways in which feminist readings can deepen understanding of Heidegger's philosophy. They illuminate both the richness and the limitations of the resources Heidegger's work can provide for feminist thought.

The 14 essays included in this collection clearly illustrate the ways in which feminist readings can deepen understanding of Heidegger's philosophy. They illuminate both the richness and the limitations of the resources Heidegger's work can provide for feminist thought.

This text is a comprehensive study of Michael Oakeshott as a philosopher rather than a political theorist, which is how most commentators have regarded him. The careful reading of his published and unpublished writings provided here, shows that Oakeshott's concerns have been philosophical.

Tn this text the author portrays the women of the Old Order River Brethren, a branch of the Brethren in Christ located mainly in Pennsylvania, USA. The text looks at their roles in preseving the traditional religious and cultural values in the modern world.

Romney is the best fictional portrayal of "Gilded Age" Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. Published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works.

This volume of essays investigates the question of Levinas's relationship to feminist thought. Levinas breaks with Heidegger's phenomenology by understanding the ethical relation to the "Other," the face-to-face, as exceeding the language of ontology.

The story of Abraham Lincoln in the Keystone State - a chronicle of where he went, what he did, and what he said in the state. The trail begins with Lincoln's Pennsylvanian ancestors, moves on to his travels, public appearances and speeches, and concludes with his funeral train in 1865.

Rousseau is often said to have "discovered and invented our modernity", and the author's interpretation centres on the question of what sort of life we can live in modern times.

The story of the rural life and landscape of Somerset County in Pennsylvania, as it evolved from the earliest settlement days. It demonstrates how much one can learn about the economy and culture of a particular place simply by being attentive to the built landscape.

This work looks back at the role of US intelligence during World War II, from Pearl Harbour through the plot against Hitler, from the D-Day invasion to the "unconditional surrender" of Japan, and shows how better use of the intelligence available could have saved many lives and shortened the war.

A study of Edmund Husserl's philosophy as a non-foundational approach to understanding the self as an embodied presence. It demonstrates how Husserl, anticipating the investigations of Merleau-Ponty, explored how the body functions to determine our self-presence, freedom, and sense of time.

This volume brings together a group of scholars who are either authorities on Franklin or on the role of women in the 18th century to adjudge the record and intentions of Franklin. Topics covered include: Franklin's theories on relations between men and women, and the dangers and delights of sex.

First published in 1841, the author wrote this book to convince whites that the African American community in his adopted city of Philadelphia did indeed have a class structure, offering advice to his black readers about how they should use their privileged status.

Presenting a re-reading of Mary Daly's published works, this open-ended anthology seeks to deauthorize the official canon of Western philosophy and refute the claim by some feminists that Daly's work is unworthy of further analysis because it contains fatal errors.

Presenting a re-reading of Mary Daly's published works, this open-ended anthology seeks to deauthorize the official canon of Western philosophy and refute the claim by some feminists that Daly's work is unworthy of further analysis because it contains fatal errors.

The author examines the cohort of civilian politicians, showing how they adpated to competitive politics after the 1985 regime transition and how the socialization to politics in the 1960s and 1970s shaped their initially negative attitudes toward institution building in the 1980s and 1990s.

Sets up a dialogue between work on the ethic of care and studies of public care in practice. The author argues that care as it is currently institutionalized often both assumes and perpetuates dependency and so paternalistic relationships of authority.

Early Quakers have been described as founders of a new form of spiritual practice, as the radical end of the Protestant Reformation, and as political revolutionaries. This early history of the Quakers argues that all of these are accurate and details the leaders of the Quakers movement until 1666.

These essay cover a wide diversity of subjects in Hume's work. This includes his theory of knowledge; his conception of human inquiry and the human mind; his views on our knowledge of the external world and the future; and his treatments of the passions, emotions and virtue.

This text presents a range of biographical sources, in the form of translated documents, of the 12th-century German religious figure, Hildegarde of Bingen. This collection also aims to give a more in depth view of Hildegarde's spiritual mother, Jutta of Disbodenberg.

A philosophical examination of the challenge all humans face in "embracing" their humanity despite the persistent temptation to escape from it. The author argues that Kierkegaard's interpretation of this predicament is still relevant by comparing his ideas with those of Cavell and Nussbaum.

An analysis of how the presidential system operates in post-authoritarian Chile. Peter Siavelis explores factors such as socioeconomics and the characteristics of political parties, and proposes institutional reforms that could mitigate the harm he expects the present system to produce.

Many homes across America have designs based on plans taken from pattern books or mail-order catalogues. This volume traces the history of published plans and offers a comprehensive survey of their influence on the structure and the style of American houses from 1738 to 1950.

This text studies the behaviour of Brazilian industrialists both within the economy and within politics. Drawing on interviews with industrialists and business association representatives, as well as other sources, it examines the factors which had an impact on their reference for reform.

Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, this text aims to show how the literary techniques Plato used, function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life.

A sociological study of the political and economic tranformation of Mexico which analyses the changes which took place throughout the region in the 1980s and the 1990s. This work will be relevent to all students of comparative politics.