... developed throughout his Homo Sacer project. Through a close consideration of his engagements with both Aristotle's modal ontology and Walter Benjamin's political theology, it aims to demonstrate that, although Agamben tends to disavow their consequences, the theoretical resources on which his project...

...Andreas Michel Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Andreas Michel Media Theory: On the Legacy of the Avant-Gardes in Carl Einstein and Walter Benjamin The question concerning the physiologic apriority of thought is not a hermeneutic one, but rather one is tempted to say...

...Miriam Hansen Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Miriam Hansen Of Mice and Ducks: Benjamin and Adorno on Disney AA^alter Benjamin s reflections on film and mass culture repeatedly revolved around Dis­ ney, in particular early Mickey Mouse car­ toons and Silly Symphonies.1 Theodor...

...Stephen J. Whitfield Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Three Masters of Impression Management: Benjamin Franklin, Booker T. Washington, and Malcolm X as Autobiographers Stephen J. Whitfield During the year when a German journal was publishing in serial form The Protestant Ethic...

...Daniel M. Smith Makers of American Diplomacy: From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Kissinger . Edited by Merli Frank J. Wilson Theodore A. . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1974 . Pp. 728 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 524 The South Atlantic...

...Arlin Turner The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Volume VII: October 1, 1756, through March 31, 1758 . Labaree Leonard W. , editor; Ketchum Ralph L. , associate editor; Boatfield Helen C. Fineman Helene H. , assistant editors. Volume VIII: April 1, 1758, through December 31...

...George D. Harmon Benjamin Hawkins—Indian Agent . By Pound Merritt B. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1951 . Pp. ix , 270 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 33i Jefferson, Edwin Forrest, and Mrs. Fiske. The editor pictures...

...J. L. Rose The Iliad of Homer: A Line for Line Translation in Dactylic Hexameters . By Smith William Benjamin Miller Walter . Illustrated with the Classical Designs of John Flaxman. New York : The Macmillan Company , 1944 . Pp. xx , 565 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke...

...James Woodress Benjamin Franklin . By Amacher Richard E. . New York : Twayne Publishers, Inc. , 1962 . Pp. 192 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 142 The South Atlantic Quarterly publication there would be no alarming vacuum in the literary world. He...

...H. K. Russell University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 16, Recent American Poetry . By Cambon Glauco . No. 17, Edwin Arlington Robinson . By Coxe Louis . No. 18, John Crowe Ransom . By Stewart John L. . No. 19, Benjamin Franklin...

...Charles S. Sydnor Benjamin Mosby Smith, 1811-1893 . By Flournoy Francis R. . Richmond : Richmond Press , 1947 . Pp. ix , 153 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 443 Benjamin Mosby Smith, 1811-1893. By Francis R. Flournoy. Rich­ mond: Richmond...

...Robert H. Woody Letters and Papers of Benjamin Franklin and Richard Jackson, 1753-1785 . Edited and annotated with an Introduction by Doren Carl Van . Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society , 1947 . Pp. ix , 222 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press...

...Robert H. Woody The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His “Travels Through Life” together with his “Commonplace Book” for 1789-1813 . Edited with introduction and notes by Corner George W. . Published for The American Philosophical Society by the Princeton University Press , 1948 . Pp...

...Robert H. Woody The Negro in the Civil War . By Quarles Benjamin . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1953 . Pp. xvi , 379 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 437 Russian Assignment. By Leslie C. Stevens. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown...

...Alexander DeConde Benjamin Franklin and American Foreign Policy . By Stourzh Gerald . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1954 . Pp. xvii , 335 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 137 mentioned in it in a letter published in the William...

...Harry R. Stevens Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life here first fully narrated from their entire surviving Correspondence . By Doren Carl Van . New York : The Viking Press , 1950 . Pp. vii , 255 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. Theodore Weld: Crusader for Freedom . By Thomas Benjamin P. . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1951 . Pp. xii , 307 . $4.25 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 157 The Brazil of the last two decades is an unknown...

...William B. Hamilton Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diary and. Sketches, 1818-1820 . By Latrobe Benjamin Henry Boneval . Edited by Wilson Samuel Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Illustrated. Pp. xxiv , 196 . $8.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke...

...Arlin Turner The Papers of Benjamin Franklin . Labaree Leonard W. , editor; Bell Whitfield J. Jr. , associate editor; Boatfield Helen C. Fineman Helene H. , assistant editors. Volume III : January 1 , 1745 , through June 30, 1750. New Haven : Yale University Press...

...Arlin Turner The Papers of Benjamin Franklin . Labaree Leonard W. , editor; Bell Whitfield J. Jr. , associate editor; Boatfield Helen C. Fineman Helene H. , assistant editors. Volume IV : July 1, 1750, through June 30, 1753. New Haven : Yale University Press , 1961...