Paul Ricouer New Developments in Phenomenology in France: The Phenomenology of Language [reprinted in 51:1 50th Anniversary Issue] In the...

Harry Neumann On the Platonism of More's Utopia More’s Utopia has been regarded as an imitation of Plato’s Republic as well as the...

Murray Greene Alienation Within a Problematic of Substance and Subject Alienation as a philosophic concept is most often associated with...

Jacob Marschak Economic Planning and the Cost of Thinking We shall call economic planning the process of arriving at an optimal decision....

Julie Meyer In Memoriam: Frieda Wunderlich, 1884-1965 Frida Wunderlich died on December 29th of last year. She was the only woman among...

Hans Jonas In Memoriam: Kurt Goldstein, 1878-1965 Kurt Goldstein died on September 19, 1965 at the age of eigthy-six. The Graduate...

Alfred McClung Lee The Concept of System Popular imagery treasures the notion that human affairs constitute a “system.” Human behavior...

Robert Lekachman The Literary Intellectuals of New York In between 1934 and 1961, the dates of these two editions of Webster’s...

Richard Lichtman Karl Popper's Defense of the Autonomy of Sociology In the second volume of The Open Society and its Enemies, Karl Popper...

E. V. Walter Mass Society: The Late Stages of an Idea The ideas of mass society and mass culture are not confined to social thought, but...

John T. Marcus Death-Consciousness and Civilization At the heart of history remains the problem of the origin of civilization. It...

Abba P. Lerner Nuclear Symmetry as a Framework for Coexistence The ultimate security of world peace lies with the eventual establishment...

S. M. Miller The American Lower Class: A Typological Approach In recent years increasing attention has been directed to the “lower class”...

Leo Lowenthal and Ina Lawson The Debate on Cultural Standards in Nineteenth Century England It has lately become fashionable in...

Jean Piaget The Attainment of Invariants and Reversible Operations in the Development of Thinking [reprinted in 51:1 50th Anniversary...

Arnold M. Rose Conditions for Irrational Choices Transitivity may be defined as that characteristic of rationality or consistency of choice such that if a person or group prefers A to B or C, he or it also prefers A to C. Less consciously political theorists assume transitivity when they hold that free and informed voting produces choices--on candidates or issues--that accurately reflect the voters’ preferences or desires... Thus transitivity is a key assumption in each of th

Allan Bloom Shakespeare on Jew and Christian: An Interpretation of the Merchant of Venice When one thinks of Othello and Shylock one can...

Cesar Grana Cultural Nationalism: The Idea of Historical Destiny in Spanish America (Part I) The expression "American history" means in...

Richard Cox The Role of Political Philosophy in the Theory of International Relations [U]ntil we understand for ourselves the classical...

Ithiel de Sola Pool, Norton E. Long, Arvid Broderson, Arnold Brecht, Hans Neisser, and Howard B. White The New Political Science...