Arien Mack, Editor
Though both Karl Marx and Henry David Thoreau dealt with the effects of alienation on humanity, they differed greatly in political, ethical, and social beliefs, 1840s–50s.
Discusses Karl von Clausewitz's contemplation of the diversity of war juxtaposed with the unity of the concept of war, the connection between political intentions and military means, and the reciprocal determination of political regimes and the modalities of warfare, 1820s–1830s.
Marcuse’s moral theory on which his theory of revolution rests is somewhat tentative and inchoate. That human life is worth living he takes to be an “absolute” presupposition, “the a priori,” of social theory and practice. From it he deduces man’s “self-evident” natural and universal “right” to a full life.
Examines hysteria as a social role within the 19th-century family as an indicator of domestic stress, stress resolution, female roles, and male-female relations within a stringent social organization. Not only was hysteria a widespread and in the intellectual history of medicine significant disease, it remains to this day a frustrating and ever-changing illness.
When Herodotus, the “Father of History” as he is called, began to write the second half of the fifth century, he took the Persian wars of the years 490 and 480–79 as the subject of his work. However, he in no way limited himself to this great event in the Greek past. He attempted to describe extensively what had gone on before in Greece, how the great kingdoms of the east had developed and how the war with Persia came about. It designates the human intellectual effort necessary to reach the truth and put this truth down in writing. Truth here, is no longer, as earlier, a gift of the Muses and the result of inspiration. Here it is assumed that man searches for truth, struggles after it, exerts himself methodically to acquire it.
Husserl published the first two parts of The Crisis of European Sciences at the begin of 1936. The whole study plus an extensive collection of related essays and notes have been available in print since 1954. Yet, phenomenologists have been rather reluctant to face up to one of the central issues of the last major work of Husserl: the historicity of philosophy.
Reviews of Nathan G. Hale's Freud and the Americans, Vol. I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. 574 pp. and Nathan G. Hale’s James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. 384 pp.
A review of David J. Rothman’s The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1971. xx & 376 pp.
A review of Morton Kaplan’s On Historical and Political Knowing. Chicago (and London): University of Chicago Press, 1971. 159 pp.
A review of Karl H. Pribram’s Languages of the Brain: Experimental Paradoxes and Principles in Neurophysiology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1971. xiv & 432 pp.
A review of Judith M. Bardwick’s Psychology of Women: A Study of Bio-Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.