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An analysis of the process and implications of German unification in its historical and international setting. The book ends with a glimpse of how Germans envisage themselves in the year 2000.

Emily Dickinson's fascicles comprise more than 800 poems in 40 booklets. In this text, Oberhaus argues that these poems are presented in a meaningful order and centering on common themes. Dickinson is also revealed as a Christian poet for whom the Bible was an essential inspiration.

This work represents an attempt to recast debates over reason and modernity, knowledge and power, in the terms of a democratic philosophy that treats epistemological debates in social terms.

A major figure of the English Enlightenment, Joseph Priestley, although best known as a chemist, was involved in theology, electricity, politics, English grammar, rhetoric and educational philosophy. This biography covers the first 40 years of his life; the foundation for many of his achievements.

A cultural history of the reforming power of language, based on a study of non-fiction prose of the 1830s - 1850s, in particular orations and lectures. Practices that crossed boundaries of gender, race and class show how diverse sectors of American society valued the word as a means toward reform.

This text developes Hume's critique of rationalism, referring to the section of the "Treatise" that deals with the continuing existence of bodies and to his neglected essay, "The Sceptic".