Books from Northwestern University Press

  • Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger
    By David W. Johnson

    By fully unfolding Watsuji’s novel and radical claim that this is a setting that is neither fully external to human subjectivity nor merely a product of it, this book also sets out what still remains unthought in this concept, as well as ...

  • Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology
    By Paul Ricoeur

    Thanks to an intuition bearing on the essence of "acts" and their "contents," we are able to distinguish ... placed in order by the Husserl Archives at Louvain, many of which are published in the series Husserliana, (The Hague, 195c— ).

  • From Text to Action
    By Paul Ricoeur

    1 Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (London and New York: Hutchinson's University Library, 1949). 2 Marcus B. Hester, The Meaning of Poetic Metaphor (The Hague: Mouton, 1967). 3 Francois Dagognet, Ecriture et iconographie (Paris: Vrin, ...

  • Pizza City, USA: 101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America's Greatest Pizza Town
    By Steve Dolinsky

    There are Barnaby's locations in Niles and Des Plaines, but they are unrelated to the original in Northbrook. Ordered: small half-sausage, half-pepperoni* Talk about PIGUE (Pizza I Grew Up Eating) Syndrome.

  • The Journals, 1966-1990
    By John Fowles

    I noticed this during the discussions with Boxall and tax counsel. For them it is something to be earnest and respectful about; to me it is an irritation, something that gets in the way of more important things.

  • Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation: Between Tyranny and Despair
    By Jennifer L. Geddes

    Corngold, Stanley, ed. Franz Kafka's “The Metamorphosis.” New York: Bantam, 1972. ———. Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Corngold, Stanley, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner, eds.

  • Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality
    By Robert J. Blakely, Marcus Shepard

    A Voice for Freedom and Equality Robert J. Blakely, Marcus Shepard ... They were Dickerson; Archibald J. Carey Jr., who in addition to his law practice was pastor of the African American Consolidating Gains ◇ 143.

  • Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture, Evolution
    By Marcus Nordlund

    And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy.

  • The Nether: A Play
    By Jennifer Haley

    The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist.

  • A Death in Harlem: A Novel
    By Karla FC Holloway

    In fact,” Smith volunteered as he examined the item more closely, “it's nearly like the one I purchased for my wife.” The jury tittered. “Well, it seems identical to the one I saw in her right hand.” Smith took the hanky and asked if ...

  • Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace
    By Karla Gower

    Smith, Bradford B. “Controlled versus Uncontrolled Economy.” Vital Speeches of the Day 13, no. 2 (November 1946): 48–53. Smith, Everett R. “The Customer Will Be Boss.” Vital Speeches of the Day 11, no. 22 (September 1945): 693–95.

  • The Anthropology of Music
    By Alan P. Merriam, Valerie Merriam

    Richardson , Jane 1940 Law and status among the Kiowa Indians . New York : Monographs of the American Ethnological Society , I. Ricklin , Franz 1915 Wishfulfillment and symbolism in fairy tales . New York : Nervous and Mental Disease ...

  • Selected Philosophical Essays
    By Max Scheler

    ... 183 Burmester, L., 8 n Cairns, D., xxi n Calvin, J., 105 Cassirer, E., xiii, 160 n Chisholm, R., xxx n Cohen, H., 160, 308-9 Comte, A., 119 Copernicus, N., 173, 225, 278 Cornelius, H., 58 n, 290 Democritus, 332, 336, 343 De Quincey, ...

  • Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
    By Joshua Kates

    This book seeks to address these questions by returning to what it claims is essential history: the development of Derrida's core thought through his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology.

  • The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination
    By Mark Rudman

    Crisis, breakdown, rejuvenation: this is the territory of poetry that Rudman takes readers into with this set of essays.

  • Ferraro: My Story
    By Linda Bird Francke, Geraldine Ferraro

    See Catholics Roosevelt, Eleanor, 194, 257, 294, 329 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 38, 267 Rosenberg, Tom, 112 Rosenthal, Abraham (Abe), 168 Ross, Jim Buck, 140, 147 Rotandaro, Fred, 234 Russia. See Soviet Union Sacramento (Calif), ...

  • Renaissance Drama 33
    By Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall

    It is therefore no surprise to find Jonson's work illuminated by Wilson in just this way. In Wilson's account, the elaboration of the law of contract opens up a space (or rather, a time) in which the articulation of intention and action ...

  • Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance
    By Andrew Benjamin

    Final Openings In his response to Oscar Schmitz's critique of the film Battleship Potemkin (1927), Benjamin argues the following concerning how the impact of the technological is to be understood: The vital, fundamental advances in art ...

  • Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories
    By Richard Stern

    For decades, Richard Stern has been acclaimed as an American master of the short story.

  • Pacific Tremors
    By Richard Stern

    When age becomes a factor in their ability to find good work in Hollywood, a director and a critic are forced to step back and reevaluate their futures in the movie business.