Bøker av Edward Alexander

In this book of absorbing stories, Bruce Mazlish illuminates the lives of intellectual and political leaders with the penetrating light of psychohistory and in doing so illuminates our own lives as well

Demonstrating the contemporary theoretical relevance of social and legal scholars such as Henry Sumner Maine, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Hans Kelsen, this second volume is useful in gaining a better understanding and appreciation of the essential foundation for a post-classic approach in law and social inquiry.

Here, Edward Alexander offers an exploration of the fundamental antagonism between liberalism and Jewish tradition from the 19th to the 21st century. Central to Alexander's arguments is his incisive critique of the missapprehension of modern Judaism as a child of the Enlightenment.

In this book of absorbing stories, Bruce Mazlish illuminates the lives of intellectual and political leaders with the penetrating light of psychohistory and in doing so illuminates our own lives as well

Reveals fresh perspectives on leading literary figures and their relationships, and shows how personal friendship influences art. This book examines Trilling and Howe in relation to one another, as well as their comparative reactions to the Holocaust.

Defines the relationship between humanism and liberalism by comparing the two Victorian figures who were most concerned with the preservation of humanistic values in a free and democratic society: Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill.