Selected Writings On Literature & The Ar

During his lifetime, Henry Paolucci taught and wote in several academic disciplines.

The variety of subject presented in this volume bears testimony to Professor Paolucci's wide range of interests and provides an impressive sampling of Professor Paolucci's comprehensive approach to knowledge.  Selected Writings is an introduction to an unusual scholar and teacher, a keen statesman, and political realist who was also, always, at ease as a philosopher.

Italian and English "models" for the modern vernacular literatures of India -- Machiavelli's Mandragola -- The poetics of Aristotle and Hegel -- Hegel and the idea of artistic beauty, or the ideal -- Galileo: The assayer -- Galileo and 20th century questions -- Pierre Duhem: To save the phenomena -- Hegel and the celestial mechanics of Newton and Einstein -- Truth in the philosophical sciences of society, politics, and history -- Maitland on English law -- Cesare Beccaria's On crimes and punishments -- The Kissinger legacy -- Europe after 1992: an end to nationhood as historically defined?