In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and ...

In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and ...

In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."

This edition contains the nightmarish "Pkhentz," a story missing from the first English edition. Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of Andrei Sinyavsky, the exiled Soviet dissident writer.

A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics.

No knowledge of the technicalities of contemporary philosophy or literary theory is assumed. The scope of the book includes chapters on form, beauty and aesthetic appreciation, and the relationship between art and morals.

Combining a scholar's command of fact with a narrator's ease of style, the noted scholar H.A.R. Gibb presents an historic survey of Islam, from the days of the prophet, through the religion's spread in Asia and Africa, to its confrontation ...

Selections Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics, Books 1-3, & 10, and his Politics, Books 7-8.

"The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture.

In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."