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A reassessment of the writings of the mid-nineteenth-century American art critics James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), Clarence Cook (1828-1900), and William J. Stillman (1828-1901), and their role in the historiography of American art.

Examines "melancholia" as a philosophical, medical, and social phenomenon in early modern art. Argues that, despite advances in art and science, the topos of the dispirited intellectual continues to function metaphorically as a locus for society's fears and tensions.

Explores the imitation of Michelangelo by three artists, Perino del Vaga, Daniele da Volterra, and Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the 1520s to the time around Michelangelo's death in 1564. Argues that his Mannerist followers applied imitation to identify with and/or create ironical distance from to the older artist.

Explores the main ideas of Pennsylvania-born religious leader Frank Buchman (1878-1961), his work in the movement known as the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament, and his enduring legacy in the areas of peace-building and interfaith understanding.

A narrative history of Franklin & Marshall College. Combines analysis of historical context and institutional development with accounts of the college during crucial periods such as the Civil War and the 1960s.

Accounts of human rights violations committed from the 1950s to the 1980s by the communist dictatorship in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).

A set of case studies exploring the tastes, passions, and possessions of cardinals in Renaissance and Baroque Rome.

Examines the work of the Ferrarese court artist Dosso Dossi (c. 1486?-1542), with emphasis on his portrayal of ancient and vernacular subjects found in such works as Jupiter Painting Butterflies, Myth of Pan, Enchantress, and his frescoes of Aesop's fables.

This volume of essays investigates the question of Levinas's relationship to feminist thought. Levinas breaks with Heidegger's phenomenology by understanding the ethical relation to the "Other," the face-to-face, as exceeding the language of ontology.

Explores the imagery of woman in Mexican art and visual culture. Examines how woman signified a variety of concepts, from modernity to authenticity and revolutionary social transformation, both before and after the Mexican Revolution.

Sketches the background of Platonism and materialist positivism in modern European metaphysics and political philosophy that provided the context for Rousseau's intellectual development. This book examines Rousseau's choice of Platonism over positivism and its consequences for his philosophy generally.

A collection of photographs and essays focusing on postindustrial landscapes and abandoned buildings in Pennsylvania.

Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism.

A volume of essays on the Hebrew Bible. Jean Bottero sees the Bible as a variety of documents which reveal much about their time of origin, historical events, and climates of thought. He focuses on the need for an understanding of Israel as a major root of our entire Western tradition.

Examines the political economy of growth in Venezuela since the discovery of oil in 1920.

This volume covers the early medieval chapel near the river Clitunno in central Umbria. The author makes the Tempietto del Clitunno, a celebrated art-historical test case, the focus of a study that penetrates to the deep structure of the discipline.

Examines how food aid, population policies and policy against domestic violence reflected and reproduced existing inequalities based on race, class and gender in 1990s Peru.

Presents, and in part develops, a systematic philosophy as the universal science, or the theorization of the unrestricted universe of discourse, explicitly including being as such and as a whole. Argues that complete exploration of the theoretical domain requires such a science.

Essays by eight philosophers, working in the Continental and American pragmatist philosophical traditions, that address the issue of race, its social construction and myth, and the problems it raises on a daily basis.

We see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life. The essays in this volume offer insight into the myths and stereotypes, as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town.

This examination of the work of English writers on peace in late medieval and Renaissance England is integrated with analysis of the political context. It challenges the popular assumption that this was simply an age of war during which ideas of peace had little impact on society and government.

This study investigates the loss of religion's traditional power in a culture characterized by a "normal nihilism" - a situation in which one's commitment to a set of values is all one has and traditional religion is just a means of interpretation.

Explores the concept of the social contract and how it shapes citizenship. Argues that the modern social contract is an account of the ethical and cultural conditions upon which modern citizenship depends.

Art did not exist in Byzantium. Devotional objects - pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts - were regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices. This book examines the means by which the relationship between the divine and the human was made manifest through crafted, material objects.

An analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasid mosaics in the Holy Land from the second century B.C.E to eighth century C.E.

Explores the works of five major American Jewish artists: Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery influenced by the Bible.