Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss

This chapter reviews the book Sara Levi-Tanai: hayim shel yetzirah (Sara Levi-Tanai: A Life of Creation) (2015), edited by Henia Rottenberg and Dina Roginsky. Sara Levi-Tanai chron...

“Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the greatest mind in political philosophy in the twentieth century, and possibly in other centuries as well. That, I am well aware, is a judgment I sha...

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ign...

Richard Strauss in Context offers a distinctive approach to the study of a composer in that it places the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather than on biography and artistic o...

Primo Levi (1919-1987), italiano de origem judaica, químico, sobrevivente dos campos de concentração e extermínio nazistas, é considerado um dos principais nomes da literatura que ...

Émile Benveniste was a French linguist of Sephardic descent, born in 1902 in Aleppo in what was then the Ottoman Empire. A specialist in comparative Indo-European grammar and, in t...

It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revo...