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Consists of selections from Hamilton's correspondence, pamphlets, and reports.

"In this volume, Whyte addresses the problems of despair and fanatical religious or political reactions that arise from despair."--Back cover.

The author brings to a focus his interpretation of biblical religion as an existential confrontation between God and man in which God calls man, individual and collectivee, to decision; man responds, and God judges.

Social scientists test their hypotheses about prophetic-disconfirmation behavior by observing a group prophesying the end of the world.

This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, etc., and their types of adjustment to the new environment.

"Rene Descartes is often called the 'Father of Modern Philosophy.' The profound controversies that his doctrines have engendered are alone sufficient to establish his eminence. Yet if he is to be paid a due respect, it is necessary to understand him on his own terms- to distinguish his doctrines from myriad notions labeled 'Cartesian.' The quest for certainty may be a constitutional imperative for every philosopher; in the case of Descartes it was an acknowledged passion. Thus there is no more fitting approach to him than to study seriously his claims to having attained certainty regarding what he took to be the questions of metaphysics, namely, the questions of the existence of God and of the nature of the human mind."--The Preface.

First published in 1952 under the title "[Henri Comte de Saint-Simon: Selected Writings]( (by Blackwell, Oxford, England)

Re-examines the revolutionary processes involved in America's struggle for independence and constitutional government in the light of subsequent world events.

Contains, with other papers, lectures delivered at the University of Rome and published in 1927 under title: Corso di sociologia politica.Errata slip inserted. Bibliographical references included in "Notes."

188 pages ; 18 cm

"Biblical in origin, the expression "eclipse of God" refers to the Jewish concept of 'hester panim', the act of God concealing his face as a way of punishing his disobedient subjects. Though this idea is deeply troubling for many people, in this book Martin Buber uses the expression hopefully — for a hiding God is also a God who can be found. First published in 1952, 'Eclipse of God' is a collection of nine essays concerning the relationship between religion and philosophy. The book features Buber's critique of the thematically interconnected—yet diverse—perspectives of Søren Kierkegaard, Hermann Cohen, C. G. Jung, Martin Heidegger, and other prominent modern thinkers. Buber deconstructs their philosophical conceptions of God and explains why religion needs philosophy to interpret what is authentic in spiritual encounters. He elucidates the religious implications of the I-Thou, or dialogical relationship, and explains how the exclusive focus on scientific knowledge in the modern world blocks the possibility of a personal relationship with God. Featuring a new introduction by Leora Batnitzky, 'Eclipse of God' offers a glimpse into the mind of one of the modern world's greatest Jewish thinkers."--Back cover.

Contents include: Hebrew Beginnings, The Age of Moses, The Conquest of Palestine, Tribal Rule and Charismatic Leaders, The United Monarchy, From the Disruption of the Monarchy to the Revolt of Jehu, From Jehu to the Fall of Samaria to the Captivity, Captivity and Restoration, From Nehemiah to the Fall of the Persian Empire.

xiii, 282 p. ; 21 cm

"The alienation of humankind, in the fundamental sense of the term, means the loss of control: its embodiment in an alien force which confronts the individuals as a hostile and potentially destructive power. When Marx analysed alienation in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, he indicated four principal aspects of it - the alienation of human beings from: (1) nature ; (2) their own productive activity ; (3) their 'species being', as members of the human species; and (4) each other. He forcefully underlined that all this is not some 'fatality of nature' - as indeed as the structural antagonisms of capital are characteristically misrepresented, so as to leave them in their place - but a form of self-alienation. In other words, not the deed of an all-powerful outside agency, natural or metaphysical, but the outcome of a determinate type of historical development which can be positively altered by a conscious intervention in the historical process, in order to 'transcend labour's self-alienation'." -- From preface.

Presents what life was like in the year 1000 for an Englishman.

Wigglesworth was one of the first settlers of New England; he attended Harvard, the Puritan college and taught there for several years during which he wrote most of his diary. He became a minister and spent the greater part of his life preaching Puritanism to the people of Malden, Massachusetts.

This is intellectual history in the largest sense, not confined to ideas in one or a few fields, but covering the whole spectrum of Western intellectual activity during the four centuries when the world was transformed from medieval to modern. An important feature of the book is its stress on the interplay of ideas from different fields. In particular, the authors give more attention than is usual to the ideas of science, to the movements of literary style, and to the innovations in the arts. This is a profound and evocative history of the life of ideas in their full setting: of men, of groups of men, of events.

Study of the economic, social and political factors involved in South Carolina's drive to nullify Jackson's "Tariff of Abominations" of 1828.

This bok give an account of the life of the Buddha and an exposition of the religion and philosophy the Buddha propounded. This also analyses the origins of Buddhist thought and traces its development from Hindu philosophical systems. Developments in Buddhist thought since the death of the Buddha are also dealt with as are Buddhist literature, sculpture and painting, both in India and in other parts of the world to which Buddhism spread. "The aim of the book," says the author, "is to set forth as simply as possible the Gospel of Buddhism according to the Buddhist scriptures, and to consider the Buddhist systems in relation , on the one hand, to the Brahminical systems in which they originate, and, on the other hand, to those systems of Christian mysticism which afford the nearest analogies. At the same time the endevour has been made to illustrate the part which Buddhist thought has played in the whole development of Asiatic culture, and to suggest a part of the significance it may still possess for modern thinkers." Dr. Coomaraswamy has succeeded in achieving this objective as only he could. With his genius for lucid exposition and with a beauty of style and expression characteristically his own, he has succeeded in presenting some of the most complex concepts of Indian philosophy in terms which make them understandable even to the layman.