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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for
the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not
just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest
sense - economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free
World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic
Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal
years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and stresses the rich
flow of ideas across the Atlantic. How did elitism and an
anti-totalitarian scepticism of passion and ideology give way to a
new sensibility defined by experimentation and loving the Beatles?
How was the ideal of 'freedom' applied to causes that ranged from
anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation
via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to
readers of The Metaphysical Club, Menand takes us inside Hannah
Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir and the post-war vogue for French existentialism,
structuralism and post-structuralism. He also shows how Europeans
played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and
thought, revealing how America's once neglected culture became
respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book
offers a masterly account of the main characters and minor figures
who played part in shaping the post-war world of art and thought.
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for
the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not
just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest
sense - economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free
World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic
Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal
years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and stresses the rich
flow of ideas across the Atlantic. How did elitism and an
anti-totalitarian scepticism of passion and ideology give way to a
new sensibility defined by experimentation and loving the Beatles?
How was the ideal of 'freedom' applied to causes that ranged from
anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation
via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to
readers of The Metaphysical Club, Menand takes us inside Hannah
Arendt's Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir and the post-war vogue for French existentialism,
structuralism and post-structuralism. He also shows how Europeans
played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and
thought, revealing how America's once neglected culture became
respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book
offers a masterly account of the main characters and minor figures
who played part in shaping the post-war world of art and thought.
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History
A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought.
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Well Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea -- an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea.
Holmes, James, and Peirce all believed that ideas are not things "out there" waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent -- like knives and forks and microchips -- to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals -- that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely depent -- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea deps not on its immutability but on its adaptability.
The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America. It begins with the Civil War and s in 1919 with Justice Holmes's dissenting opinion in the case of U.S. v. Abrams-the basis for the constitutional law of free speech. The first four sections of the book focus on Holmes, James, Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. The last section discusses some of the fundamental twentieth-century ideas they are associated with. This is a book about a way of thinking that changed American life."
A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and
entertaining reference book-named the #2 essential home library
reference book by the Wall Street Journal "Shapiro does original
research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next
to Bartlett's and Oxford's."-William Safire, New York Times
Magazine (on the original edition) "The most accurate, thorough,
and up-to-date quotation book ever compiled."-Bryan A. Garner, Los
Angeles Review of Books Updated to include more than a thousand new
quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve
thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and
sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital
culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other
aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition
include Beyonce, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Gluck,
LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda,
Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie
Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also
reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of
quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or
attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations
that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New
Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women
originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been
forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to
prominent men instead. This book's quotations, annotations,
extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy
both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious
browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably
from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285-312) that provide instruction
on how to compose epideictic (display) speeches for a wide variety
of occasions both public and private. Two are attributed to one
Menander Rhetor of Laodicea (in southwestern Turkey); the third,
known as the Ars Rhetorica, incorrectly to the earlier historian
and literary critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus. These treatises
derive from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Roman
Empire from the 2nd through 4th centuries AD in the Greek East.
Although important examples of some genres of occasional prose were
composed in the 5th and 4th centuries BC by Thucydides, Xenophon,
Plato, and especially Isocrates, it was with the flowering of
rhetorical prose during the so-called Second Sophistic in the
second half of the 2nd century AD that more forms were developed as
standard repertoire and became exemplary. Distinctly Hellenic and
richly informed by the prose and poetry of a venerable past, these
treatises are addressed to the budding orator contemplating a civic
career, one who would speak for his city's interests to the Roman
authorities and be an eloquent defender of its Greek culture and
heritage. They provide a window into the literary culture,
educational values and practices, and social concerns of these
Greeks under Roman rule, in both public and private life, and
considerably influenced later literature both pagan and Christian.
This edition offers a fresh translation, ample annotation, and
texts based on the best critical editions.
Do the Fed's efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality?
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a
monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned,
government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of
banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created
outside of the banking system have pushed the Fed to take on more
and more responsibilities to keep the economy out of recession, as
it did during the 2008 crisis, and again during the first months of
the COVID-19 pandemic, when it created $3 trillion to stop another
financial panic. Legal scholar and former Treasury official Lev
Menand explains how the Fed did this, and argues that it is time to
cure the disease that has plagued the American economy for decades,
and not just rely on the Fed to treat its symptoms. The Fed Unbound
is an urgent appeal to Congress to reform the U.S. economic and
financial infrastructure.
Spectacular new finds, many of them in Egypt at Oxyrhynchus, have
dramatically expanded the extant work of Menander since Allinson's
one volume Loeb edition was published in 1921. This new Loeb
Menander is three times the size of the Allinson volume. W. G.
Arnott, internationally recognized Menander expert, brings us all
of the work of the great Hellenistic comic playwright that is now
available. A Greek text based on careful study of the discovered
papyri faces a skillful translation that fits today's tastes, with
full explanatory notes.
Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays.
Among these are the recently published fragments of "Misoumenos"
("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed
relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving
half of "Perikeiromene" ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a
comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel.
So influential in antiquity--his plays were adapted for the
Roman stage by Plautus and Terence--Menander's comic art can at
last be fully known and enjoyed again. It is a comedy that focuses
on the hazards of love and trials of family life--as is typical of
New Comedy, a style of which Menander is the leading writer.
Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays.
By the Middle Ages they had all been lost. Happily papyrus finds in
Egypt during the past century have recovered one complete play,
substantial portions of six others, and smaller but still
interesting fragments. Menander was highly regarded in antiquity
and his plots, set in Greece, were adapted for the Roman world by
Plautus and Terence. Geoffrey Arnott's new Loeb edition is in three
volumes.
Volume I contains six plays, including the only complete one
extant, "Dyskolos" (The Peevish Fellow), which won first prize in
Athens in 317 BCE, and "Dis Expaton" (Twice a Swindler), the
original of Plautus' "Two Bacchises,"
Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays.
Among these are the recently published fragments of "Misoumenos"
("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed
relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving
half of "Perikeiromene" ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a
comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel.
Volume III begins with "Samia" (The Woman from Samos), which
has come down to us nearly complete. Here too are the very
substantial extant portions of "Sikyonioi" (The Sicyonians) and
"Phasma" (The Apparition) as well as "Synaristosai" (Women Lunching
Together), on which Plautus's "Cistellaria" was based. Arnott's
edition of the great Hellenistic playwright has been garnering wide
praise for making these fragmentary texts more accesible,
elucidating their dramatic movement.
At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university
today--from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of
the academy as a multicultural institution--is the concept of
academic freedom. But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in
these debates. Now nine leading academics, including Henry Louis
Gates, Jr., Edward Said, Richard Rorty, and Joan W. Scott, consider
the problems confronting the American University in terms of their
effect on the future of academic freedom.
"Louis Menand has assembled "The Future of Academic Freedom" to
better define and delineate what should and should not happen
within our colleges and universities. . . . The whole extremely
learned yet accessible debate exploits the freedoms it extols,
tackling sensitive subjects such as ethnicity and ethics
head-on."--"Publishers Weekly"
"The essays are not only sharp, elegant and lucid, but extremely
well-informed about the history of American battles over academic
freedom."--Alan Ryan, "Times Higher Education Supplement"
"[A] superb inquiry into some of the most vexing and significant
issues in higher education today."--Zachary Karabell, "Boston Book
Review"
This volume completes the Loeb Classical Library's new edition
of the leading writer of New Comedy. W. G. Arnott, an
internationally recognized Menander expert, provides a Greek text
based on careful study of recently discovered papyri, a facing
translation that is lucid and fits today's tastes, and full
explanatory notes.
So influential in antiquity--his plays were adapted for the
Roman stage by Plautus and Terence--Menander's comic art can now be
fully known and enjoyed. It is a comedy that focuses on the hazards
of love and trials of family life. This volume begins with "Samia"
(The Woman from Samos), which has come down to us nearly complete.
Here too are the very substantial extant portions of "Sikyonioi"
(The Sicyonians) and "Phasma" (The Apparition) as well as
"Synaristosai" (Women Lunching Together), on which Plautus's
"Cistellaria" (The Casket Comedy) was based. The volume also
includes a selection of papyrus fragments attributed to
Menander.
Arnott's edition of the great Hellenistic playwright has been
garnering wide praise for making these fragmentary texts more
accessible to readers, elucidating their dramatic movement. In the
words of David Konstan (writing in Scholia Reviews): "An excellent
guide to Menander...Arnott has given us fine texts, clear
translations, brief and useful introductions."
This, also, not withstanding that the peoples who so receive
Confucian morals as their guide are of the most various views
concerning religion, i.e., for instance, are Buddhists,
Mahommedans, Taoists, Shintoists, etc. No other ethical system,
whether of religious origin, or of secular, has ever been
acceptable to persons professing religious convictions so diverse.
His political maxims have been regarded as fundamental, and
knowledge of them, as well as of his ethics, has been insisted upon
as a prime essential to political preferment, in a nation which,
despite the not infrequent shifting of ruling dynasties, has the
unparalleled record of continuing from prehistoric times to the
present without a single break. A great step forward in the
dissemination of the doctrine in foreign lands is taken in this
translation. Lofty as appear the ideals, in the usual translations,
they lose the effect on the average reader that the application
which Mr. Dawson has now given them must create. Driving home the
principles by careful compilation under different headings, the
author causes the scheme of ethical conduct to attract and appeal;
and the blessings it has bestowed in the vast expanses of China may
yet give comfort to many people in many other lands.
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Classical Comedy (Paperback)
Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence; Edited by Erich Segal
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The ideal single-volume introduction to the greatest masterpieces
of ancient comedy
From the fifth to the second century B.C., theatrical comedy
flourished in Greece and Rome. This new anthology brings together
four essential masterworks of the genre: Aristophanes? bold,
imaginative "The Birds"; Menander's "The Girl from Samos," which
explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and
sexual misbehavior; and two later Roman comic plays?Plautus's "The
Brothers Menaechmus," the inspiration for Shakespeare's "The Comedy
of Errors"; and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love plot,
"The Eunuch." Together, these four plays capture the genius of
classical comedy for students, theatergoers, actors, lovers of
satire, and anyone interested in the ancient world.
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