James Miller, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-15085-3
Miller (The Passion of Michel Foucault) profiles 12 thinkers whose philosophies may have been consistent but whose engagements with the social and political mores of their time were far more fraught. From Plato's failure to mold the tyrant Dionysius
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James Miller, Author Anchor Books $25 (496p) ISBN 978-0-385-47240-1
A brilliant, sensational study of the life and thought of the French historian/philosopher/social activist. (Apr.)
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James Miller, Author Yale University Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-300-03518-6
Miller sketches the main events in Rousseau's life and concentrates on his thoughts about democracy as expressed in Social Contract and other works. He also examines Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on such thinkers as de...
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James Miller, Author, Jim Miller, Author Simon & Schuster $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69550-7
This brilliant study assiduously exposes the life and thought of the French historian/philosopher/social activist Michel Foucault (1926-1984), whose work continues to exert a tremendous influence, particularly in academia. Miller ( ``Democracy Is in
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James Miller, Author, Jim Miller, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-80873-4
Wynonie Harris's 1948 hit, ""Good Rockin' Tonight,"" popularized the term ""rock"" but was confined to Billboard's ""race"" charts and never crossed over to the larger white audience (though a contemporary African-American performer, Louis Jordan,...
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James Miller. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-13764-9
Government by the people—exercising power themselves without delegating it to representatives or administrators—remains a conflicted, elusive goal, according to this incisive study of direct democracy. Politics professor Miller (Examined Lives)...
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