Coeditors’ Introduction: Retro III: As We Restart
Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee

Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer.

A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes's political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life.

A time capsule of a classic Italian American neighborhood, told in the voices of its inhabitants.

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.

Contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern.

Recounts the compelling stories of Civil War soldiers and sailors who lived in Oswego County, New York.

Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner—the other—represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.

Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.

A visual and narrative memoir of a lifetime's encounters with 112 trendsetters, musicians, politicians, writers, and ordinary people by a noted folklorist-photographer.

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.