Historiography

Diplomatic negotiation of our day is a curious mix of national endeavor within the bloc concept.

It has recently been argued that the 18th century can no longer be 1 seen as gripped in the strait-jacket of Augustanism and Neoclassicism.

The study of environment in the administrative management con- text is of a relatively recent vintage.

ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT In Spring of 1968 a research project concerning the scholastic philosophy in the Iberian Colonies of America was submitted to the Institute of Latin American Studies in the University of Texas by Dr.

There were several compelling reasons which prompted me to undertake the work of translating and commenting upon the Vale of Tears by Joseph of all, those of Hacohen, the sixteenth century physician and historian.

When I first became acquainted with the thought of the American philoso- pher Josiah Royce, two factors particularly intrigued me.

This book has two purposes.

The general aim of this book is to present a study of a dramatic genre which was a significant facet of French drama in the period from 1784 to 1834 and has never before been singled out or analyzed.

The studies contained in this volume arose over the last thirty years.

This study is of a modest segment of Germany's experience in the Weimar and Nazi periods.

Who, in 1945 and 1946, could have foreseen that the economic and social integration of the millions of Germans from the East expelled into West Germany after Wodd War II would largely be accomplished in a few years?

In the last hundred years, the philosophy of natural law has suffered a fate that could hardly have been envisaged by the seventeenth and eighteenth century exponents of its universality and eternity: it has become old-fashioned.

My research in the intellectual and spiritual sphere of nineteenth- century Russia revealed that ever since the penetration of the fashion- able anti-ecclesiastical views of the Encyclopedists into Russia, the aristocrats had grown indifferent to religion.

QU ALITIES, QUERIES, AND REPUTE Holland has bred its share of remarkable men and Gerard van Swieten was one of them.

Humanism has constantly proclaimed the belief that the only way to improve man's life on earth is to make man himself wiser and better.

This book is the study of a man who caught my interest both because of his own character and of the variety of his activities.

Anyone making a study of the causes that led to the fall of the Chinese mainland into Communist hands will have to examine the long struggles between the two major rival parties in China, the Nationalists or the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists.

The works of Simon Stevin are most interesting for the history of science, because they have such a wide scope and reflect so clearly the development of scientific knowledge around 1600 in central Europe.

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves.

The departmentalism of American universities has doubtless much to recommend it.

The revival of ancient Greek scepticism in the 16th and 17th centuries was of the greatest importance in changing the intellectual climate in which modern science developed, and in developing the attitude that we now call "e;The scientific outlook"e;.

There exists an extensive literature on the history of the Saint- Simonian movement as well as on various phases of Saint-Simo- nian economic, literary, aesthetic, feminist, and pacifist thought and activity.

This is a profile of people known as Burakumin, a Japanese minority group with a history of many centuries.

The axiological idealism of Georges Bastide, which is itself an attempt to come to grips with basic philosophical problems in a form wholly in accord with the preoccupations of our times, offered a unique opportunity for coming into contact with two new horizons - critical idealism and axiological personalism.

Although numerous facets of the French Revolution have been thoroughly researched, there remain many lacunae.

In this study I will present the intellectual development of Schelling, Holderlin and Hegel during their formative years.

It is not always easy to maintain a proper balance between the delineation of cultural development within a given literary field and the claims of practical criticism.

This study represents the unexpected outcome of an enquiry into the resources for the study of the medieval history of East Central Europe.

Although the works of Francis Hutcheson are unfamiliar to most students of philosophy, it cannot be said that he has been entirely ignored.

Phenomenalism, idealism, spiritualism, and other contemporary philo- sophical movements originating in the reflective experience of the cogito witness to the immense influence of Descartes.

Some justification seems to be necessary for the addition of yet another History of Iranian Literature to the number of those already in existence.

Until the nineteenth century Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was among the most famous and most valued of historians.

Scholars have given relatively little attention to sixteenth-century Portuguese humanism, although Portugal's vital influence on the humanistic thirst for learning has been readily acknowledged.

The English Della Cruscan School, although its nucleus was formed in 1785 by the publication of The Florence Miscellany, existed neither in the consciousness of the group which formed it nor in that of the pu blic until it was so dubbed as a term of reproach by William Gifford in his bitter satire The Baviad (1791).