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MAN IN THE SCHEME OF EVOLUTIONIn his bodily structure Man shows such remarkable resemblances to the lower animals that it now seems astonishing to us that his kinship with them should ever have been seriously controverted. His skull and skeleton are composed of the same bony elements, his muscular...
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The text of this volume has been completely revised for this edition, and a number of misreadings have been corrected. These were mostly very small. The most serious one that I have found was the reading of "u.u." ("und umgekehrt) as "u.U" ("unter Umständen"). The...
ForewordProfessor Strauss completed this study, his last major work, in the autumn of 1971, two years before his death. He wrote it with a lifetime of reflection on Plato behind him, and with a particular interest in the Laws that cannot have become intense more recently than the winter of 1959,...
Until the thirties, Australian and North-American Indian religions were more seriously investigated and better understood than the folk traditions of southeast Europe. On the one hand, the researchers were interested mainly in the folk literature; moreover, they collected the material with some...
PrefaceThis book is not a biography, although in overall outline it tries to follow the chronological development of Rousseau's atdtudes and ideas. Neither is it a systematic exposition of the philosophy of the citizen of Geneva, although crucial aspects of that philosophy do come in for detailed...
CHAPTER 1
Commercial Culture and Its Discontents
In the early 1960s, Edward Shils wrote an essay examining "the bookshop in America." Shils praised the bookseller, a special kind of person who willingly forgoes a lucrative salary simply to be around books. The bookseller, he noted, performs an...
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For this selection from The Complete Greek Tragedies, the University of Chicago Press has asked me to write the introductions. Longer and fuller introductions, mostly by the translators themselves, will be found in The Complete Greek Tragedies. As befits a limited volume, 1 have tried to...
PREFACEThe matter collected in this volume has all been published before, but not all of it in the English original. "What is Political Philosophy.^" is a revised version of the Judah L. Magnes Lectures, which I delivered at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in December 1954 and January 1955; a...
FOREWORDBernice L. Neugarten and the Meanings of Age DailA. NeugartenWe (Bernice, Dail, and Jerrold Neugarten) began this book some time ago. It grew from a conviction that academics, students, and practitioners in disciplines as diverse as psychology, sociology, education, law, medicine, and...
PREFACE
The year 1956 saw the pubhcation of my book From the Tablets of Sumer,'^since revised, reprinted, and translated into numerous languages under the title history Begins at Sumer. It consisted of twenty-odd disparate essays united by a common theme—"firsts" in man's recorded history and...
Translator's Note
Translating Le reve mexicain (The Mexican Dream) has been a moving and enlightening task. For this is a special book, one which forces the reader to rethink—and to re-feel—the history of the Conquest of Mexico and the fate of the Amerindian peoples. Beyond describing the...
GENERAL INTRODUCTIONw. arb told that Euripides, the son of Mnesarchus or Mnesarchi-des, was born at some time between 485 and 480 b.c., presented his first set of tragedies in 455, and won his first victory in 441, won only four victories during his lifetime, left Athens probably in 408 for the...
PREFACE
This study focuses on a large and various group of images of Venice by American artists, works that seem to have perplexed scholars in their traditional quest for the American character of American art. These works constitute a definable set, however, and their very existence comments...
The Economic Approach to Human Behavior
Economy is the art of making the most of life. George Bernard Shaw
The following essays use an "economie" approach in seeking to under-stand human behavior in a variety of contexts and situations. Although few persons would dispute the distinctiveness of...
INTRODUCTION
"Genres are not to be mixed. I will not mix genres."
—Jacques Derrida
h ini s B o o K is precisely a mix of genres. The first chapter is a biographical essay, not a biography as a historian would write it. It lacks the detail, the
__intense documentation, and the proper...
PREFACEThe intention of the present study is to prepare an analysis of the principles of Hobbes's political philosophy and of that of his successors. A new analysis of those principles has become necessary as a consequence of the deepened knowledge, which has been gained during the last decades, of...
Preface
Bowing to what has become nearly universal usage, we have made a title change with this edition of the Manual of Style, and now call it what everybody else calls it, The Chicago Manual of Style— or, for short, The Chicago Manual.
Two pervasive features characterize the present...
Preface
Kate L. Turabian designed tiiis manual as a guide to suitable style for presenting formal papers—term papers, theses, dissertations—in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Over the course of sixty years the book has become established as one of the basic reference...
PrefaceWhen most people 1 encounter discuss a moral question, the considerations they advance conform to a set of related patterns, even though those patterns are sometimes at odds with the philosophical doctrines they profess. Neither phenomenon is surprising. Both in Europe, and in the societies...
INTRODUCTIONThe TextThomas Hobbes (15 88-1679) ls>to t'ie best of our knowledge, the author of A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England, which was published for the first time in 1681, two years after the author's death.1 The Dialogue was published in two...
PrefaceIn 1978 the University of Chicago Press published my controversial book. The Declining Significance of Race. I had hoped that the major academic contribution of that book would be to explain racial change in America within a macrohistorical-theoretical framework. But there was another...
CHAPTER 1
The Scope of Ecology
In solving ecological problems we are concerned with what animals do in their capacity as whole, living animals, not as dead animals or as a series of parts of animals. We have next to study the circumstances under which they do these things, and, most important...
INTRODUCTION
T-^ EHEMOTH was completed in manuscript around 1668, when Thomas Hobbes was almost eighty years old. Some pirated editions were published in the late 1670s; but an authorized version of the book was not printed until 1682. In a letter of 19 June 1679, written a few months before his...
Series Editor's PrefaceTo some of our contemporaries, historians are not what they used to be. To others, every day and in every way history gets better and better. But by coincident consent, the works of our forebears that have been winnowed by time have a lasting value, whether as models of...
Preface, 1982
I he lectures that my wife helped shape into this book were delivered a quarter of a century ago. It is hard even for persons who were then active, let alone for the more than half of the current population who were then less than ten years old or had not yet been born, to...