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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Mary Louise Pratt Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Mary Louise Pratt Humanities for the Future: Reflections on the Western Culture Debate at Stanford SWM, 38, s' 10", N/S, Stanford scientist, average­ looking, a bit eccentric, blindingly brilliant, phe­ nomenally funny...

...Renata Galtseva; Irina Rodnyanskaya Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Renata Galtseva and Irina Rodnyanskaya The Obstacle: The Human Being, or the Twentieth Century in the Mirror of Dystopia . . . one should not become so stupefied as to be­ come used to everything. Franz Kafka...

...William J. Cooper, Jr. Book Reviews 97 Slavery and Human Progress. By David Brion Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. xix, 374. $25.00. Among the many historians who have written about slavery and antislavery in the New World, David Brion Davis stands among the very few at the sum­...

...Thomas C. Reeves Excellence & Equity: The National Endowment for the Humanities . By Miller Stephen . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1984 . Pp. 192 . $17.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 193 In developing their principal...

...Frederick H. Harbison Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 A Systems Analysis Approach to Human Resource Development Planning: Nigeria Frederick H. Harbison I. Introduction The manpower approach to education planning has long been a subject for heated debate among educators...

...Wallace Jackson The Idea of the Humanities, and Other Essays Critical and Historical . By Crane R. S. . Two vols. Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1967 . Pp. xxii , 311 ; vii , 332 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 178 The South Atlantic...

...Thornton S. Graves Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Human Traits in Quadruped Actors Thornton S. Graves* University of North Carolina The dividing line between animals and humans, remarked the old trainer to the author of Under the Big Top, is mighty thin ; and Mr. Cooper...

...Louis Martin Sears Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 THE HUMAN SIDE OF FRANCIS LIEBER LOUIS MARTIN SEARS Duke University A MERICANS of German origin would probably agree that xx with the exception of Carl Schurz the most eminent of their countrymen to migrate to the United States...

...Charles Frederick Harrold The Critique of Humanism. A Symposium , Edited by Grattan C. Hartley . Brewer and Warren . 1930 . 364 pp. Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 Books 443 epigrams as Augustus s, Eternal vigilance Cannot Watch liberty and the ticker...

...Martin Bronfenbrenner Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Why Don t They Write Like Human Beings? The Case for Ideographic Languages Martin Bronfenbrenner We recommend a drastic reform of the Japanese writ­ ten language. Clearly the question of language reform is basic and urgent...

...William Bevan Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Educating for the Human Prospect William Bevan This essay summarizes themes that have preoccupied me for the bet­ ter part of two decades. After having witnessed the events that set the tone of American higher education during...

...Carl Woodring Wordsworth and the Human Heart . By Beer John . New York : Columbia University Press ; London : Macmillan , 1978 . Pp. xx , 277 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Book Reviews 225 buffalo, and shitepoke. If such a hardy creature had...

...Jishnu Guha-Majumdar This article develops the ethico‐political figure of the “cry” as a way of attending to the suffering of those on the underside of humanism. The author begins from the diagnosis that humanism—a worldview centered on the irreducible dignity of the human being by virtue...