Description This book is about Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although little-known, approximately 1 in 10 people victimized by the bombs were Koreans who had come to Japan […]
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Hiroshima: Three Witnesses
Description Hiroshima: Three Witnesses is a translation of “atomic bomb literature,” created by three Japanese authors Ota Yōko, Hara Tamiki, and Toge Sankichi, all of whom survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. […]
Emile, or on Education
Description Outlines a program for educating children according to the precepts of Nature. Heavily influenced by Locke’s philosophy of human understanding, this 1762 treatise argues that parents should pursue a “negative education”: avoid formal schooling […]
The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment
Description Explores Enlightenment optimism about the perfectibility of mankind by looking at efforts to educate and “civilize” children. Chapters consider reactions to so-called “wild children”; utopian pedagogical schemes (including efforts to apply Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, […]
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence
Description “A fractured meditation on the incompleteness and inadequacy of each possible response to collective atrocities,” is how the author of this work describes what she has written, and it is an apt description. It […]
Death and the Maiden
Description A play written by the Argentine-Chilean playwrite and activist, Ariel Dorfman. It tells the story of a woman confronting the man who allegedly took part in her torture under the previous, dictatorial regime. The […]
Man and Society in Calamity: the Effects of War, Revolution, Famine, and Pestilence upon the Human Mind, Behavior, Social Organization, and Cultural Life
Description This is a new edition of a book published originally in 1942 by one of the founders of American sociology, Pitrim Sorokin. At the time the book fell under the radar and it remains […]