The Early Runic Inscriptions: Their Western Features by Irene García Losquiño

The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise

David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature is without doubt one of the most crucial works of contemporary philosophy. This advisor offers scholars with the scholarly and interpretive instruments had to start mining Hume’s Treatise for philosophical perception. The consultant comprises fifteen newly written chapters through prime Hume students.

The Work of Mourning

Jacques Derrida is, within the phrases of the manhattan occasions , ''perhaps the world's most renowned philosopher—if now not the one well-known thinker. '' He frequently provokes controversy once his identify is pointed out. yet he additionally evokes the glory that comes from an illustrious profession, and, between many that have been his colleagues and friends, he encouraged friendship.

Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing

Jap Figures is a literary historical past with a distinction. It examines British writing in regards to the East – concentrated on India yet radiating so far as Egypt and the Pacific – within the colonial and postcolonial interval. It takes as its topic "the East" that used to be genuine to the British mind's eye, mostly the production of writers who defined and instructed tales approximately it, descriptions and tales colored through the event of empire and its aftermath.

Born under Auschwitz : melancholy traditions in postwar German literature

In German reports the literary phenomenon of depression, which has a longstanding and various background in ecu letters, has more often than not been linked to the Early sleek and Baroque sessions, Romanticism, and the obstacle of modernity. This organization, along the dominant psychoanalytical view of depression in German reminiscence discourses because the Nineteen Sixties, has resulted in its forget as an incredible literary mode in postwar German literature, a scenario the current publication seeks to redress by way of picking out and studying epochal postwar works that use depression traditions to touch upon German heritage within the aftermath of the Holocaust.