Providing a gripping, first-hand account of the Chmielnicki massacres in 1648-58, in which tens of thousands of Jews perished in Poland and the Ukraine, Rabbi Nathan Hanover describes the events themselves and their effect on European Jewry. Hanover's description of the atrocities commited* by Chmielnicki and his hordes makes it clear that they set the precedent for Hitler's torture chambers. Hanover's account of the events understood in their historical context 'shows how humans can transcend tragedy and rebuild their lives, developing new ways to express their heritage and culture. Professor Helmreich, in his new introduction, describes the- period of relative peace and prosperity for the Jews immediately preceding the massacres. He traces some of the important effects the massacre had on later Jewish history, such as the rise of Messianic and Hasidic movements in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the migration of Jews back toward the west, where they were situated when the Enlightenment swept through Europe.
After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority - church, state, class, family, law, custom - that it has denied
This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.
This book examines the social attitudes that distinguish today's youth from their predecessors, identifies the sources of these attitudes in the social experiences of today's youth, and analyzes the stereotype implied in the term "Anti-American Generation." These essays show clearly that the issue between the dissenting, primarily middle-class youth and their elders and most of the working class (regardless of age) is a difference of opinion not about Americanism but about moral behavior and the scope of moral judgment. What distinguishes the generations is not so much their feelings about their country, as' their feelings about what people should do about their feelings and the role feelings should have in the conduct of one's life. The attitudes of the young are largely in conflict with an older cultural tradition that promotes the subordination of impulse and personal conviction to rational control for the sake of common purposes and future acceptability and effectiveness.
This volume contains a study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. It elucidates stoic and perpatetic ethics for classicists and philosphers and provides textual analysis of important passages.
This volume is divided into two parts. The first part being a reconstruction and interpretation of "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, while the second examines Smith as the patron saint/prophet of 19th-century capitalism.
The extent to which the government should be involved with regulation in the private sector is a much-debated question. This text explores both the positive and the negative consequences of governmental regulations, covering how regulation is formulated and enforced.
Osiel argues that international and military law could more effectively prevent combat atrocities by studying how and why they occur. The author explores the moral and legal ambiguity of military discipline and the dilemma of obedience. The evidence is drawn from a wide array of recent wars and peace enforcement operations.
An eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session of Vatican II in 1964, interweaving pageantry, politics and theology. Novak applauds the purposes of Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul VI -"to throw open the windows of the church" and recounts many moments of high drama.
Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred writings. This text is a study of a group of Orthodox Jews engaged in the practice of "lernen", the repeated review and ritualized study of the sacred texts, and the roles played by drama, fellowship and religion in the life of the study group.
Haldane advanced genetics, population biology and evolutionary theory. This volume emphasizes important developments in natural sciences in the early-20th century. It describes Haldane's views on society, art, religion and economy as seen through the eyes of a politically alert major scientist.
An inquiry contradicts Marx's contention that the 1848 June Insurrection led to the defeat of the proletariat by the agents of the bourgeoisie. The Mobile Guard and National Workshops show that individuals' participation in these institutions of the Second Republic helped determine their loyalties.
The results of an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration to clarify theories of morality and anthropology and philosophy, showing how each may be enriched by borrowing from the other. The authors attempt to systematically map a wide range of moralities throughout the world.
A consideration of what makes us laugh and why with a claim that apart from 'good-natured play' humour is rarely as innocent as it appears, arising as it so often does from mischances, infirmities and indecencies.
Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age". This book contains selections from Germain de Stael's major works, including "Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution" and "Literature Considered in its Relation to Social Institutions".
In this cultural history, John R. Hall presents a reasoned analysis of the meaning of the murders and mass suicide at Jonestown: why it happened and how it is tied to our history as a nation, our ideals, our practices, and the tensions of modern culture.
Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was the major theorist of Italian fascism. This volume makes available some of his writings produced shortly before and after the Fascist accession to power in Italy.
This volume argues that by sacrificing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions, entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers.
Futures studies is a field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. This manual brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories and exemplars of the field.
This work covers the essence of the relationship of American Communism to Soviet Russia in the first decade after the Bolsheviks seized power. It documents the influence of the Soviet Union on the fundamental nature of American Communism.
This volume describes how military security policies and practices have adapted to post-Cold War period uncertainties and challenges. The contributors differ in their assessments about the current prospects for peace and stability worldwide.
This study of African Americans focuses on the diverse and complex cultural dichotomies that exist within the infrastructure of sport. It maintains that it is important to develop a more eclectic cultural approach to the subject.
For Irving Louis Horowitz's 75th birthday, this two-part volume includes: twelve essays reflecting the range of ideas with which he has been involved over the past five decades, and a complete list of his writings during the same period, 1951-2004.
Presenting applications in clinical development, pharmacokinetic/ pharmacodynamic modelling and clinical trial simulation, this reference studies the role of biomarkers in successful drug formulation and development.
In the late 1960s, American society entered a period of rapidly accelerating social change
Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a rapid growth of interest in political theory as the analysis of political concepts led to the publication of this book
Marijuana seeks to bring to the reader the whole configuration of this problem, which, like the Sexual Revolution and the New Politics, was at the heart of the alienation felt by many young people during the second half of the 1960s and the fears of social breakdown voiced by many of their elders
It is a startling and somewhat disturbing fact that social work researchers-as well as research psychiatrists and psychologists-have rarely explored the treatment situation from the standpoint of the client
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