This slim volume of eclectic observations on the world of taste opens with an “Aperitif,” serves the five basic tastes in separate dishes, beginning with “Sweet,” followed by “Sour,” “Salty,” “Bitt...

Jeff Mitscherling and Paul Fairfield, two Canadian philosophers, struggle, as have artists and scholars across disciplines before them, to solve the riddle of what artistic creation is all about. T...

This short book by Lorraine Daston is a classic essay: she identifies an intellectual conundrum—why do humans across cultures and history look to nature for models for cultural norms and orders?—an...

Direct democracy is not a populist goal.—Nadia Urbinati, Me the People, 2019The Swiss republic is the world’s preeminent practitioner of direct democracy.—John G. Matsusaka, Let the People Rule, 20...

The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 554-557, July 2012.

The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 426-428, June 2012.

The European Legacy, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 535-537, 01Jul2011.

The Grand Tour was “the classical continental trip to France and Italy, undertaken by young aristocratic men in early modern Europe, ostensibly for educational purposes.” According to Cambridge Uni...

The past few years have produced numerous accounts on work, both scholarly and personal, studies of labor and individual narratives of employment, jobs, gigs, the ever more dispersed realm of peopl...

Efraim Sicher, professor of comparative and English literature at Ben Gurion University, Israel, has published extensively on questions of Jewish identity in various literary contexts.1 The present...

Volume 25, Issue 3, May 2020, Page 354-359.

David Crystal (b. 1941) is a veritable language institution. As a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on all aspects of language he is not only an eminent linguist but also a widely known spo...

This sumptuous 26 x 32cm catalog of the eponymous exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco includes a series of essays, among them those by the thre...

Rainer Maria Rilke points to it in the opening lines of the first Duino elegy (published in 1923) when he writes that “beauty is nothing but / the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bea...