Books in the Clarendon Paperbacks series

Drawing together political philosophy, jurisprudence, and public choice theory, this study forces the reader to reconsider some basic assumptions about the authority of the state. Various popular theories - conventionalism, contractarianism, and communitarianism - are assessed by the author.

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the play. Brimming with lusty comedy and horror, this new version of Euripides' only extant satyr play has been refreshed with all the salty humor, vigorous music, and dramatic shapeliness available in modern American English. Driven by storms onto the shores of the Cyclops' island, Odysseus and his men find that the Cyclops has already enslaved a company of Greeks. When some of Odysseus' crew are seized and eaten by the Cyclops, Odysseus resorts to spectacular stratagems to free his crew and escape the island. In this powerful work, prize-winning poet Heather McHugh and respected classicist David Konstan combine their talents to create this unusually strong and contemporary tragic-comedy marked by lively lyricism and moral subtlety.

This imaginative and unusual book analyses the moral sensibilities and assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain, focusing on the role as public moralists of intellectuals from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J. M. Keynes and F. R. Leavis.

This is an account of how moral concepts such as forgiveness, praise, guilt and punishment apply to human interaction and behaviour. The author attempts to reach conclusions about which versions of traditional Christian doctrines utilizing such notions are morally acceptable.

These essays represent the full range of Dodds' literary and philosophical interests, and his ability to combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher convinced of the value of Greek studies to the modern world.

This study offers an interpretation of Britain's policy towards Germany in the years immediately following World War II, and a reassessment of the part played by Britain in the collapse of the Grand Alliance and the development of the Cold War.

A comprehensive account of the structure, conduct, and performance of the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe, the USSR, Communist China and the Marxist LDCs, looking at 26 nations in all.

What is music for? How does it work? What can it teach us? This thought-provoking book, combining musical and appropriate scientific research, seeks the answers to these and other fundamental questions about music.

This study traces the development of Karl Marx's ethics as they underwent shifts and changes during different periods of his life.

An investigation into Aristotle's metaphysics of nature as expounded in the "Physics". It focuses in particular on his perception of change, a concept which is shown to possess a unique metaphysical structure, with implications that should engage the attention of contemporary analysis.

Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities, as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers and analysis, he extends his approach to set theory, and shows how to dispense with a fixed universe of sets. Finally, he addresses problems of application to the physical world.

The symposion, or male drinking group of archaic and classical Greece, was an institution whose effects can be detected from the painted pottery and the poetry to many areas of ancient Greek social life. This book is a record of a symposion held in Oxford in 1984.

This study describes Lord John Russell's efforts to improve the lot and status of Irish Catholics, both by implementing changes in the landlord and tenant system and by improving the status of the Catholic Church. It provides an account of the role of the Catholic Church in the famine of 1846.

`One of the most original and significant performance-oriented studies of Shakespeare to appear in the last two decades.' Theatre Journal.

Phaedo

Euripides' "Heracles" is a tragedy with a serious theme, the sudden downfall of the good and the glorious. In this edition the editor has attempted to help the modern reader approach Euripides' works by studying the formal elements which are prominent in his plays plus his rhetorical style.

This is an original study which explores Virgil's poetic and mythical transformation of Roman imperialist ideology in the "Aeneid". The author aims to refute the popular modern theory that Virgil was anti-Augustan by discussing the depth and detail with which he explored imperialist themes.

Presents a thesis about the relation of tragedy and comedy to vase-paintings, the cultural climate of cities of the Greek world outside Athens, and the extent to which Athenians were aware of drama as a commodity they could export.

This edition includes commentary which provides an introduction to one of Euripides' less well-known plays. The notes interpret the play in a wide cultural setting, considering unorthodox aspects of the structure of the drama.

The late Carl Dahlhaus combines interpretations of individual works and excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800 in order to reconstruct Beethoven's `musical thinking' from the evidence in the works themselves and their context in the history of ideas.

A wide-ranging survey of this musical device, which identifies and traces the development of the two main types of rubato in the history of music. Hudson quotes extensively from the writings of theorists, composers, and performers to build a complete picture of its use in music from C.P.E. Bach to jazz.

For many centuries, the Western imagination has pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey. This text explores this false image, examining medieval reflection on the "numerical" explanation of musical beauty, and the relation between 14th-century innovations and contemporary science.

Examining how and why Oxford University dominated Britain's imperial policies and administration through its network of graduates, this study describes the proconsuls, missionaries and teachers who graduated from the university and carried her traditions abroad.

An original view of the problems of reference and singular terms, including a novel account of singular thought, a systematic application of recent work in the theory of speech acts, and a partial revival of Russell's analysis of singular terms.

This appraisal of the fundamental doctrines of British constitutional law examines the nature of the rule of law and the separation of powers. It refutes the traditional doctrine of unlimited parliamentary sovereignty, challenging the orthodox distinction between law and convention.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of English conurbations, suburbs, satellite towns, garden cities and seaside resorts, and is also a vivid social history of 19th and early 20th-century England.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (USA), and the Biblical Archaeology Society's award (1986) for the best scholarly book relating to the Old Testament.

Professor A. H. Halsey examines the crisis currently afflicting British higher education.

The latter decades of the 18th century were for Ireland an era of momentous political development. This book surveys the social, economic and intellectual background and describes the course of politics at a time when political activity greatly accelerated and was strongly influenced by external forces.

Utilizing elements of critical theory, intellectual history and the sociology of knowledge, the author of this treatise traces recent developments and resulting controversies involved in the teaching of English.