Sociable Man

Sociable Man
Author: S. D. Lambert
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910589217

Sociable Man, which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. Fifteen original papers reflect the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests: politics and law (Hans van Wees on Solon's law of hybris, John K. Davies on the biography of a fourth-century Athenian politician); social values, including honour, dishonour and hybris (Stephen Lambert on honorific inscriptions, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on domestic violence, Louis Rawlings on a dog named Hybris, James Whitley on victory dedications, Douglas Cairns on ransom and revenge in Homer); social relations in the Athenian navy (Sam Potts); gender and power (Janett Morgan on gendering of domestic space, Sian Lewis on women and tyranny, Ruth Westgate on animal imagery in mosaics); citizen identity, Athenian (Robin Osborne on the influence of Attic local environments on citizen formation) and Arcadian (James Roy on the Arcadian reputation for backwardness); and sexuality (David Konstan on Alciphron and the invention of pornography, Emma Stafford on masturbation). The papers will be essential reading for researchers and students of ancient Greek literature, history and archaeology. The book also includes tributes by Paul Cartledge and P. J. Shaw, respectively, on Fisher's place in research and teaching of ancient Greek social history.

Man Walks Into A Pub

Man Walks Into A Pub
Author: Pete Brown
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 033053680X

It's an extraordinary tale of yeast-obsessed monks and teetotal prime ministers; of how pale ale fuelled an Empire and weak bitter won a world war; of exploding breweries, a bear in a yellow nylon jacket and a Canadian bloke who changed the dringking habits of a nation. It's also the story of the rise of the pub from humble origins through an epic, thousand-year struggle to survive misunderstanding, bad government and misguided commerce. The history of beer in Britain is a social history of the nation itself, full of catastrophe, heroism and an awful lot of hangovers. 'a pleasant antidote to more po-faced histories of beer' Guardian 'Like a good drinking companion, Brown tells a remarkable story: a stream of fascinating facts, etymologies and pub-related urban phenomena' TLS 'Packed with bar-room bet-winning facts and entertaining digressions, this is a book into which every pub-goer will want to dip.' Express

Man and People

Man and People
Author: José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1963
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780393001235

The distinguished philosopher explores the foundations of sociology and makes a fresh examination of the meaning of society.

History and Political Economy

History and Political Economy
Author: Peter D. Groenewegen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004
Genre: Commerce
ISBN: 9780415327626

This book brings together a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought. His work on a wide range of economic theorists approaches a level of near insuperability.

Fugitive Rousseau

Fugitive Rousseau
Author: Jimmy Casas Klausen
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2014-03-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0823257312

Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery. Rather than trace Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau’s famous sentence “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.

The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory

The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory
Author: Daniel Chernilo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107009804

Daniel Chernilo offers an original reconstruction of the history of universalism in modern social thought from Hobbes to Habermas.