Best of
Cultural-Studies

1975

A Seventh Man


John Berger - 1975
    First published in 1975, this finely wrought exploration remains as urgent as ever, presenting a mode of living that pervades the countries of the West and yet is excluded from much of its culture.An account, through the photographs of Jean Mohr and the text of John Berger, of the gastarbeiter in Western Europe. This publication ties in the BBC's televising of a four part series, "Another Way of Telling: Views of Photography". The two have collaborated before on "A Fortunate Man".

Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society


Raymond Williams - 1975
    Now revised to include new words and updated essays, Keywords focuses on the sociology of language, demonstrating how the key words we use to understand our society take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of society.

The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home: Political Indictment of US Public Schools


Jonathan Kozol - 1975
    In this fourth edition, a new introduction and epilogue place the book in the context of contemporary issues and attitudes.

Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry


Wu-chi Liu - 1975
    to the present."This magnificent collection has the effect of a complete library rather than of an anthology of poetry.... A lyric quality comes through into our own language... Every page is alive with striking and wonderful things, immediately accessible." --Publishers Weekly"Sunflower Splendor is the largest and, on the whole, best anthology of translated Chinese poems to have appeared in a Western language."--The New York Times Book Review"This remarkably fine anthology should remain standard for a long time." --Library Journal..". excellent translations by divers hands. Open to any page and listen to the still, sad music... " --Washington Post Bookworld

Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995


Gilles Deleuze - 1975
    This title also documents Deleuze's increasing involvement with politics.

Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act


E.P. Thompson - 1975
    

Hitopadesha: Choice of Friends


Kamala Chandrakant - 1975
    Each chapter contains a string of stories, one emerging from the other, with each designed to render counsel on ethical worldly-wise conduct. The characters are living beings including humans and animals in the wild. The latter too are endowed with the reason and emotions of human beings. Thereby they come to represent types of human nature and behavior and one can draw morals from the stories. In this collection, a tiger finds a gold bangle with which he allures a traveler to cross the river; stuck in mire, the greedy man falls easy prey to the tiger. In another story, a jackal feigns friendship with a deer who despite warnings from a wise crow joins the jackal and meets with a tragedy. An old blind vulture is offered shelter by birds in the hollow of a tree. He protects their fledglings. A cat pleads for living with them and the vulture agrees. The cat finishes the fledglings one by one and goes away. The birds suspecting the vulture kill him. Moral: Do not give shelter to the unknown. This collection is treasure house of such stories.

A Comparative History of Ideas


Hajime Nakamura - 1975
    Discussing, in their similarities and in their subtle differences, ideas from India, China, Japan and Europe, the author considers such inclusive notions as the concept of God, the controversy over universals and the nature of orthodoxy and heterodoxy. This is a lucid and rewarding book which sets a new standard for dealing with a history of thought across many cultures.

Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Mind, Language and Reality


Hilary Putnam - 1975
    His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of philosophical and scientific enquiry; the second deals with the philosophy of language and mind. Volume one is now issued in a new edition, including an essay on the philosophy of logic first published in 1971.

The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial


Robert N. Bellah - 1975
    In his 1967 classic essay "Civil Rights in America," Bellah argued that the religious dimensions of American society—as distinct from its churches—has its own integrity and required "the same care in understanding that any religion." This edition includes his 1978 article "Religion and the Legitimation of the American Republic," and a new Preface.

The Dawn of Tantra


Herbert V. Günther - 1975
    Tibet has been shrouded in mystery, and "tantra" has been called upon to name every kind of esoteric fantasy. In The Dawn of Tantra the reader meets a Tibetan meditation master and a Western scholar, each of whose grasp of Buddhist tantra is real and unquestionable. This collaboration is both true to the intent of the ancient Tibetan teachings and relevant to contemporary Western life.

World of the Past


Jacquetta Hawkes - 1975
    Volume One is 601 pages. Volume Two is 709 pages. The set covers "a world -wide history of archaeology and its greatest discoveries, area by area, in the eloquent words of the original discoverers, observers, and interpreters".