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In an earlier book Professor Krieger discussed the tragic vision as the confrontation with extremity -- the writer's commitment to a master metaphor even as he acknowledges the incompleteness of that metaphor. The term 'classic' is used here to indicate 'the sense of restraint, of acceptance, of coming to terms with limitations self-imposed -- as ......
''Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline.''Speculum
''Avrom Fleishman's ''The English Historical Novel'' provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel''.--Harriet Gilliam, ''Clio''.
While the scientist works essentially with what he observes, with the measurable properties of nature, the philosopher of science is concerned to formulate the conceptual foundations of the scientific method. In this systematic study, Professor Achinstein analyzes such concepts as definitions, theories, and models, and contrasts his view with ......
The familiar idea of a covenant between God and His people is central to much of the literature of the Old Testament. Through analyses of the style, content, and language of biblical and extra-biblical documents, Dr. Hillers renders the complex idea of covenant comprehensible to the layman as he provides insights into such ideas as the love of God ......
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of 'fixed stars' gave way to that of a universe infinite in both time and space -- with significant and far-reaching ......
Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's 'Origin of Species', this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant, Herder, Lamarck, and Schopenhauer by such leading scholars as Arthur O. Lovejoy, Bentley Glass, ......
