Author: Harvey Starr File Type: pdf Henry Kissinger conducted American foreign policy with a distinctive assurance and panache that gave dramatic force to his tenure as secretary of state. His was the shaping hand in decisions that led to detente with the Soviet Union, to opening relations with the Peoples Republic of China, and to shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and the disengagement of Egypt and Israel during the 1973 war.Taking a fresh look at the statecraft of Henry Kissinger, Harvey Starr brings to bear a variety of analytical methods on data drawn from different stages in Kissingers career to define and explain the beliefs and perceptions that formed the ground of his policy decisions. Using psychohistory and content analysis, Starr defines Kissingers perceptions of his adversaries?the Soviet Union and Red China?and draws revealing comparisons between Kissinger and John Foster Dulles. Henry Kissinger Perceptions of International Politics is an illuminating view of an important era in American diplomacy.

Author: Suzanne J. Kessler File Type: pdf Kessler and McKenna convincingly argue that gender is not a reflection of biological reality but rather a social construct that varies across cultures. Valuable for its insights into gender, its extensive treatment of transsexualism, and its ethnomethodological approach, Gender reviews and critiques data from biology, anthropology, sociology, and psychology. From the Back Cover This may well be one of the most important scientific books ever written about sex. {It} will undoubtedly create a heated controversy among sex researchers and might change the ways we all look at biological species. About the Author Suzanne J. Kessler is professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Purchase. Wendy McKenna is an adjunct associate professor of psychology at Barnard College.

Author: Arthur M. Melzer File Type: pdf Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award in 2016 Philosophical esotericism--the practice of communicating ones unorthodox thoughts between the lines--was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopedie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty different articles, but admits to employing it itself. The history of Western thought contains hundreds of such statements by major philosophers testifying to the use of esoteric writing in their own work or others. Despite this long and well-documented history, however, esotericism is often dismissed today as a rare occurrence. But by ignoring esotericism, we risk cutting ourselves off from a full understanding of Western philosophical thought. Arthur M. Melzer serves as our deeply knowledgeable guide in this capacious and engaging history of philosophical esotericism. Walking readers through both an ancient (Plato) and a modern (Machiavelli) esoteric work, he explains what esotericism is--and is not. It relies not on secret codes, but simply on a more intensive use of familiar rhetorical techniques like metaphor, irony, and insinuation. Melzer explores the various motives that led thinkers in different times and places to engage in this strange practice, while also exploring the motives that lead more recent thinkers not only to dislike and avoid this practice but to deny its very existence. In the books final section, A Beginners Guide to Esoteric Reading, Melzer turns to how we might once again cultivate the long-forgotten art of reading esoteric works. Philosophy Between the Lines is the first comprehensive, book-length study of the history and theoretical basis of philosophical esotericism, and it provides a crucial guide to how many major writings--philosophical, but also theological, political, and literary--were composed prior to the nineteenth century. **

Author: Mary Bryden File Type: pdf This book is an encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proustthe novelist, and Beckettthe writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust mighthave responded to Deleuze and Beckett.About the AuthorMARY BRYDEN is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading. She is a recent past President of the Samuel Beckett Society, and a former Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. Her extensive publications on Samuel Beckett and Gilles Deleuze include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God, Deleuze and Religion (ed.), and Gilles Deleuze Travels in Literature.MARGARET TOPPING is Senior Lecturer in French at the School of European Studies at Cardiff University. Her major publications include Prousts Gods and Supernatural Proust, as well as the edited collection Eastern Voyages, Western Visions French Writing and Painting of the Orient.