Table of Contents

Volume 40, Number 4 · February 11, 1993

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Radical

Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy by George F. Kennan

Ivo Banac, Stanislaw Baranczak, Norberto Bobbio, et al. An Appeal

John Weightman, Fatal Attraction

Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944–1956 by Tony Judt

Alan Ryan, Invasion of the Mind Snatchers

Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking by David Bromwich

Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff

Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition by Francis Oakley

Martin Filler, He's the Top

The Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn by Jan Hochstim, Introduction by Vincent Scully

Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Interviews edited and with an introduction by Alessandra Latour

Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture 1991–January 5, 1992), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (March 5–May 4, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (June 14–August 18, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (September 26–November 3, 1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (March 7–May 30, 1993), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (July 3–October 10, 1993), Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus (November 17, 1993–February 1, 1994) an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 20,

Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture catalog of the exhibition by David B. Brownlee, by David G. De Long

The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn University Museum of Art by catalog of an exhibition at the Duke Patricia Cummings Loud, foreword by Michael P. Mezzatesta

James Joll, Nietzsche vs. Nietzsche

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890–1990 by Steven E. Aschheim

Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre

When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom

Scott MacLeod, South Africa on the Edge

Garry Wills, Popes and Pagans

Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture DC, January 6–April 30, 1993 catalog of the exhibition at the Library of Congress, Washington,, edited by Anthony Grafton

From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance by N.G. Wilson

Piero della Francesca by Carlo Bertelli, translated by Edward Farrelly

Murray Kempton, The Jumper

Hoffa a film directed by Danny De Vito, written by David Mamet

Paul Kennedy, Preparing for the 21st Century: Winners and Losers


Letters

Jacques Derrida, Thomas Sheehan, 'L'affaire Derrida'
John D. Moore, 'L'affaire Derrida'
John Irving, Edmund Keeley, et al. An Urgent Appeal from Pen American Center
Adam Schwartz, M.F. Perutz, Sex and the Church
Mark Kleiman, Michael Massing, Drugs and the Law
Sander Vanocur, James Chace, Outsiders



Contributors

Stanislaw Baranczak, a poet and essayist, is the Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Literature (emeritus) at Harvard. (February 2006)

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (August 2007)

Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. His latest book is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. (November 2006)

Adam Michnik is Editor in Chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He spent six years in prisons in Communist Poland. In 1989, he participated in the Round Table agreements that led to establishing the first non- Communist government in the Soviet bloc. He is the author of several books, including Letters from Prison and Letters from Freedom. (June 2007)

Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (November 2007)

Simon Schama's most recent book is A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603–1776, the companion volume to his ongoing BBC/History Channel television series. (February 2002)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the author of numerous books on American history, served as adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He died this year. His Journals: 1952– 2000, from which an excerpt appears in this issue, will be published in October by Penguin. (October 2007)

John Weightman, Professor Emeritus of the University of London, is the author of The Concept of the Avant-Garde. He will soon publish The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd. (October 2002)

Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia. One of our most distinguished historians and critics, he is the author of numerous books, including Saint Augustine, Papal Sin, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has won many other awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Evanston, Illinois.


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