...Richard D. Altick Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 MARK TWAIN S DESPAIR: AN EXPLANATION IN TERMS OF HIS HUMANITY RICHARD D. ALTICK IN MAKING a study of Mark Twain one will inevitably encounter the problem of his despair. An examination of the possible causes of his surprising...

...Ruth Aproberts Thackeray’s Canvass of Humanity: An Author and His Public . By Colby Robert A. . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 1979 . Pp. vi , 469 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass of Humanity: An Author...

...Sydney Eisen Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Frederic Harrison and the Religion of Humanity Sydney Eisen As a young lad growing up in early Victorian England, Frederic Harrison was struck by the great material transformation that was going on around him. At the time, he barely...

...Roland M. Frye Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 MARLOWE S DOCTOR FAUSTUS: THE REPUDIATION OF HUMANITY Roland. M. Frye ON MANY counts Marlowe s Doctor Faustus may stand as a prime example in Elizabethan drama of what Sir Philip Sidney applauded as that feigning notable images...

... and the nation-state as the spheres where the human ceases to be a mere biological body subject to humanitarian relief and finally turns into a fully fledged subject of rights. This article, in contrast, interrogates the possibility of political lives in gray areas. It asks, what conditions of being human...

...Marie Anne Updike White The Human Nature of Playwriting . By Raphaelson Samuel . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. 267 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 158 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Human Nature of Playwriting. By Samuel Raphaelson...

...Lewis Leary D. H. Lawrence and Human Existence . By Tiverton Father William . New York : The Philosophical Library , 1951 . Pp. 138 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 179 of the Bible. Yet to it he and his opponents went to find support...

...Harold T. Parker History and Human Relations . By Butterfield Herbert . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1952 . Pp. 254 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 BOOKS History and Human Relations. By Herbert Butterfield. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952...

...Matthew Abraham This essay argues that the reception of Noam Chomsky's political scholarship by progressive academics demonstrates that the state of theory in the humanities has reached a point of crisis; that is, Chomsky's unpopularity in certain academic circles indicates that conceptions...

... Assembly, as well as pertinent treaty and customary international law. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Lorie M. Graham and Siegfried Wiessner Indigenous Sovereignty, Culture, and International Human Rights Law Resistance and the Law...

...Don Robotham 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Don Robotham Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism: The Strategic Universalism of Paul Gilroy One of the most important intellectual trends in the world today is cosmopolitanism and global...

... of mimetic labor in China today. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational schools and theorized using Diane Elson’s value theory of labor, this essay analyzes China’s current regimes of human capital accumulation. I argue that these regimes structure nonelite education such that working...

... sources for these arguments, especially his fieldwork in Lowndes County, Alabama, and the novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece , that was clearly influenced by that experience. Thomas C. Holt “A Story of Ordinary Human Beings”: The Sources of Du Bois’s Historical Imagination in Black...

...Nehal Bhuta In this article, Bhuta revisits the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ interpretation of religious freedom in the headscarf cases. He considers how recent historical work on the history of religious freedom and freedom of conscience opens up a new interpretation...

...Samuel Moyn This essay contends that contemporary headscarf and related cases in the European Court of Human Rights draw not solely upon the exclusionary legacy of Western secularism but also upon the exclusionary legacy of Western hostility to secularism. One of the avatars of the contemporary...

..., Emancipation, and Human Rights . London : Verso . Bond Patrick . 1991 . Commanding Heights and Community Control: New Economics for a New South Africa . Johannesburg : Ravan . Bozzoli Belinda . 1981 . The Political Nature of a Ruling Class: Capital and Ideology in South Africa, 1890...

... if the concepts of antagonism and autonomy no longer capture the strange condition of contemporary human and nonhuman existences? What if there is no human , or even any humans , but merely regionally more or less densely compacted forms and modes of existence, one component of which has been abstracted out...

...William J. Cooper, Jr. Slavery and Human Progress . By Davis David Brion . New York : Oxford University Press , 1984 . Pp. xix , 374 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 97 Slavery and Human Progress. By David Brion Davis. New York: Oxford...

...Immanuel Wallerstein Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Immanuel Wallerstein The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System 26 August 1789, the French National Assembly adopted the Declaration...

...Bruce Kuklick Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Bruce Kuklick The Emergence of the Humanities Some of the learned in the humanist tra­ dition in America either claim (or live their lives in such a way as to suggest) that higher learning is a good in itself, to be pursued without...