The World as It Goes is a scandalous comedy by Hannah Cowley that has remained unpublished despite growing scholarly interest. This edition includes an introduction that offers valuable insights into the cultural, theatrical, historical, and biographical contexts surrounding the work, along with contemporaneous reviews that enhance the reader's understanding of its significance.
Kurt Gödel's groundbreaking contributions to mathematics and philosophy, particularly through his doctoral thesis, revolutionized the understanding of logic and set theory. Despite his profound influence, he remained largely unrecognized by the general public. This book delves into Gödel's life, exploring his intellectual journey and the significance of his work, including his famous incompleteness theorems, which challenged the foundations of mathematics and sparked debates in various fields, revealing the complexities of truth and proof.
Essays on the Modern Identity selectively represents the developing understanding of the modern self from the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) to the present. This volume contextualizes the late-twentieth-century crisis of the self by exploring the relationships between modern and postmodern conceptions of the human identity. Featuring exemplary analyses of selected texts, paintings, and prints, this collection of essays is offered as a contribution to the ongoing, necessarily interdisciplinary discussion of the place of modern identity in a postmodern world.