Vol 2. by W.H. Coates and H.V. White, has title: The ordeal of liberal humanism: an intellectual history of liberal humanism: an intellectual history of Western Europe. Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography: v. 2, p. [469]-474. v. 1. From the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution.--v. 2. Since the French Revolution.

Vol 2. by W.H. Coates and H.V. White, has title: The ordeal of liberal humanism: an intellectual history of liberal humanism: an intellectual history of Western Europe. Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography: v. 2, p. [469]-474. v. 1. From the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution.--v. 2. Since the French Revolution.

Vol 2. by W.H. Coates and H.V. White, has title: The ordeal of liberal humanism: an intellectual history of liberal humanism: an intellectual history of Western Europe. Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography: v. 2, p. [469]-474. v. 1. From the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution.--v. 2. Since the French Revolution.

Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays address the key concepts of White's intellectual career, including tropes, narrative, figuralism, and the historical sublime while exploring the place of White's work in the philosophy of history, postmodernism, and ethics. They also discuss his role as historian and teacher and apply his ideas to specific historical events.

This book investigates how Europe has evolved from a theocratic culture to a contemporary nation-state structure. It examines how the Renaissance affected European society, as well as its economy, political system, and culture, resulting in new nation-states and ideologies and culminating in the French Revolution. Beginning in Italy around 1300, the Renaissance evolved into a time of literary, artistic, and intellectual blossoming that challenged the medieval worldview. Martin Luther’s protests against the Catholic Church in 1517 marked the beginning of the Reformation. The Scientific Revolution saw a paradigm shift in Western philosophy and established modern technology based on observation, experimentation, and mathematics. The late 17th and late 18th centuries saw the height of the Enlightenment. The French Revolution was a watershed event that signalled the end of the Old Regime and the commencement of modern France, sparking democratic ideas and activities. The book will be of interest to students of history, as well as a general readership interested in European history, politics, and culture.

Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based surveillance. Media theorists tend to understand audio recording as a technique for separating bodies from sounds, but this book listens closely to tape's embedded information, offering a counterintuitive site-specific account of 1960s poetic recordings. Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Larry Eigner, and Amiri Baraka all used recording to contest models of time being put forward by dominant media and the state, exploring non-monumental time and subverting media schedules of work, consumption, leisure, and national crises. Surprisingly, their methods at once dovetailed with those of the state collecting evidence against them and ran up against the same technological limits. Arguing that CIA and FBI "researchers" shared unexpected terrain not only with poets but with famous theorists such as Fredric Jameson and Hayden White, Lytle Shaw reframes the status of tape recordings in postwar poetics and challenges notions of how tape might be understood as a mode of evidence.

How did human values develop?; Were they inherent in our being?; Were they selected to insure human survival?; For those interested in understanding the foundations for their own belief system this book provides thought-provoking answers to these questions.