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Monteverdi and the end of the Renaissance
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Tomlinson, Gary

Monteverdi and the end of the Renaissance / Gary Tomlinson

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Berkley [etc.] : University of California press, 1990

Abstract: Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Invented lives
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Invented lives : narratives of black women, 1860-1960 / Mary Helen Washington

New York : Doubleday, c1987

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Plans and situated actions
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Suchman, Lucille Alice.

Plans and situated actions : the problem of human-machine communication / Lucy A. Suchman.

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Abstract: This book offers a provocative critique of the dominant assumptions regarding human action and communication which underlie recent research in machine intelligence. Lucy Suchman argues that the planning model of interaction favoured by the majority of AI researchers does not take sufficient account of the situatedness of most human social behaviour. The problems that can arise as a result are pertinently, and often amusingly, illustrated by the careful analysis of a recorded interaction between novice users and an intelligent machine, whose design has failed to accommodate essential resources of successful human communication. Plans and Situated Actions presents a compelling case for the re-examination of current models underlying interface design. Lucy Suchman's proposals for a fresh characterisation of human-computer interaction which also incorporates recent insights from the social sciences provides a challenge that everyone interested in machine intelligence will seriously need to consider.

Patterns of moral complexity
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Larmore, Charles E.

Patterns of moral complexity / Charles E. Larmore.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Abstract: Larmore aims to recover three forms of moral complexity that have often been neglected by moral and political philosophers. First, he argues that virtue is not simply the conscientious adherence to principle. Rather, the exercise of virtue apply. He argues - and this is the second pattern of complexity - that recognizing the value of constitutive ties with shared forms of life does not undermine the liberal ideal of political neutrality toward differing ideals of the good life. Finally Larmore agrues for what he calls the heterogeneity of morality. Moral thinking need not be exclusively deontological or consequentialist, and we should recognize that the ultimate sources of moral value are diverse. The arguments presented here do not attack the possibility of moral theory. But in addressing some of the central issues of moral and political thinking today thay attempt to restore to that thinking greater flexibility and a necessary sensitivity to our common experience.

The Hellenistic philosophers
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Long, A. A.

The Hellenistic philosophers / A.A. Long, D.N. Sedley.

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Abstract: This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organised by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts (with some additional passages) as are translated in The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. The authors provide their own critical apparatus, and also supply detailed notes on the more difficult texts. This volume is equipped with a large annotated bibliography. Volume 1 presents the texts in new translations by the authors, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by all readers, including those with no background in the classical world. With its glossary and indexes, this volume can stand alone as an independent tool of study.

Basic issues in aesthetics
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Eaton, Marcia Muelder, (1938-)

Basic issues in aesthetics / Marcia Muelder Eaton.

Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., [1987] c1988.

The Wadsworth basic issues in philosophy series

Abstract: The aesthetic is an important part of human experience. Our responses to music or mountains are not merely leisure time activities; they give meaning to life. Philosophical aesthetics attracts people from different areas of interest including philosophy, art history, music, and theater. In this concise, well-written book, Marcia Muelder Eaton clearly speaks to readers of varied backgrounds, bringing this mixed audience to a point where they can share their special insights with one another. Presented so that even complex issues in aesthetics are accessible to novices, the volume is organized around the components of an aesthetic situation.

Critique of judgment
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Kant, Immanuel, (1724-1804.)

Critique of judgment / Immanuel Kant ; translated, with an introduction, by Werner S. Pluhar ; with a foreword by Mary Gregor.

Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., c1987.

Abstract: In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain natural phenomena as beautiful, says Kant, when we recognise in nature a harmonious order that satisfies the mind's own need for order. The second half of the critique concentrates on the apparent teleology in nature's design of organisms. Kant argues that our minds are inclined to see purpose and order in nature and this is the main principle underlying all of our judgements. Although this might imply a super sensible Designer, Kant insists that we cannot prove a supernatural dimension or the existence of God. Such considerations are beyond reason and are solely the province of faith.

Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship
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Trautmann, Thomas R.

Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship / Thomas R. Trautmann.

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.

Abstract: Thomas Trautmann offers a new interpretation of the genesis of 'kinship' and of the role it played in late 19th century intellectual history. Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences.

Unfree Labor
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Kolchin, Peter

Unfree Labor : american slavery and russian serfdom / Peter Kolchin

Cambridge, Mass. and London : Harvard University Press, 1987

Abstract: Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective. These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence and resident mentality of American slaveholders facilitated the emergence of a vigorous crusade to defend slavery from outside attack, whereas an absentee orientation and dependence on the central government rendered serfholders unable successfully to defend serfdom. Russian serfs, who generally lived on larger holdings than American slaves and faced less immediate interference in their everyday lives, found it easier to assert their communal autonomy but showed relatively little solidarity with peasants outside their own villages; American slaves, by contrast, were both more individualistic and more able to identify with all other blacks, both slave and free. Kolchin has discovered apparently universal features in master–bondsman relations, a central focus of his study, but he also shows their basic differences as he compares slave and serf life and chronicles patterns of resistance. If the masters had the upper hand, the slaves and serfs played major roles in shaping, and setting limits to, their own bondage. This truly unprecedented comparative work will fascinate historians, sociologists, and all social scientists, particularly those with an interest in comparative history and studies in slavery.

History of political philosophy
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History of political philosophy / edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey.

3rd ed.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Abstract: This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to include both new and revised essays.

The possibility of cooperation
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Taylor, Michael, Ph. D.

The possibility of cooperation / Michael Taylor.

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Studies in rationality and social change

Abstract: This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focusing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoners' Dilemma supergame. It is a revised and expanded edition of the author's classic work of rational choice theory Anarchy and Cooperation, originally published with John Wiley in 1976. The analysis has been recast and developed here to make it more accessible to non-mathematical readers and to provide a more comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the theory of collective action. The book will be of interest to a range of readers in political and social philosophy and in economics.

Journeys among women
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Hellman, Judith Adler.

Journeys among women : feminism in five Italian cities / Judith Adler Hellman.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Abstract: This is a book about the journey of ideas among Italian women. Based on interviews, participant observation, and the writings produced by women in five different settings, Judith Adler Hellman traces the movement of feminism throughout Italy, from Turin and Milan, the great industrial cities of the North, to Reggio Emilia in the "red belt" of central Italy, to Verona in the deeply religious Northeast, and finally, to Caserta in the South. Following the development of Italian feminism from its origins in the turn-of-the-century Socialist Party into the 1980s, the author has gathered rich, first-hand accounts of participants that indicate the various ways that feminist thinking was received and reformulated by Italian women. In cities both large and small, cosmopolitan and provincial, Catholic and communist or socialist in their traditions, we see the impact of ideas, and the ways in which those ideas transformed and were, in turn, transformed by women acting within the constraints of their particular local social and political conditions. Hellman concludes with a broad analysis of the impact of feminism on the lives of the women she came to know, and on Italian society and politics as a whole.

Tradesmen and traders
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Mackenney, Richard.

Tradesmen and traders : the world of the guilds in Venice and Europe, c. 1250-c. 1650 / Richard Mackenney.

Totowa, N.J. : Barnes and Noble Books, c1987.

Abstract: This book provides a new synthesis by offering a reinterpretation of the accepted views on the nature and functions of the guild as it existed in medieval and early modern Venice and Europe.

Patricians and popolani
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Romano, Dennis, (1951-)

Patricians and popolani : the social foundations of the Venetian Renaissance state / Dennis Romano.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987.

Abstract: Since Machiavelli, historians and political theorists have sought the sources of the stability that earned for Venice the appellation La Serenissima, the Most Serene Republic. In Patricians and Popolani, Dennis Romano looks to the private lives of early Renaissance Venetians for an explanation. Fourteenth-century Venice escaped the tumultuous upheavals of the other Italian city-republics, Romano contends, because the patricians and common people of the city did not divide sharply along class or factional lines in their personal associations. Rather, Venetians of the era moved in a variety of intersecting social networks that were shaped and influenced by an overriding sense of civic community. Drawing on the private archives of Venice—notarial registers, collections of testaments, and records of estates maintained by the procurators of San Marco—Romano analyzes the primary social bonds in the lives of the city's inhabitants. In separate chapters, Patricians and Popolani examines the forms of association in everyday Venetian life: marriage and family structure; artisan workshops and relations among tradesmen; the role of the parish clergy and the "sacred networks" that formed around convents, hospitals, and confraternities; and neighborhood and patron–client ties. By the beginning of the fifteenth century, Romano argues, all these networks of association had been transformed as a new hierarchical spirit took hold and overwhelmed the older, more freewheeling tendencies of Venetian society. The old sense of community yielded to a new and equally compelling sense of place, and La Serenissima remained stable throughout the later Renaissance.

The ghetto of Venice
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Calimani, Riccardo, (1946-)

The ghetto of Venice / Riccardo Calimani ; translated by Katherine Silberblatt Wolfthal.

New York : M. Evans, c1987.

Abstract: Chronicles the Jewish ghetto of Venice, from its creation in 1516 through its travails during World War II, and sheds light on subjects including the Inquisition, the Marranos, and the organization of the Jewish community. The English word ghetto derives from the name of the island on which Venetian Jews were forced to live in cuses on the political, financial, and cultural dynamics of the ghetto and also offers fascinating insights into Venetian and European history from the Renaissance until World War II. Jews are seen as both desired and detested, and their treatment in Venice over the centuries reflects the vacillation in both Christian and Jewish points of view. Major subjects discussed include the Inquisition, the Marranos, the attitudes of the Church, the role of Venice as a crossroads, trades open to Jews, and the organization of the Jewish community. In addition, the life and work of leading political and cultural figures,including merchants, doctors, rabbis, and poets, are presented. For students, historians, and anyone with an interest in Jewish or Italian history and culture, this book is fascinating and essential reading.

Production, power, and world order
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Cox, Robert W.

Production, power, and world order : social forces in the making of history / Robert W. Cox

New York : Columbia university press, c1987