This annotated edition of the landmark inquiry into the women's role in society by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, Viriginia Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own features an introduction by English and Women's Studies professor Susan Gubar, perfect for critical analysis in classrooms and beyond. "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare...

Presents the text of Paine's political pamphlet, citing the evils of monarchy and the necessity for the British colonies to break free of England and self-govern.

The Gettysburg Address, delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863 in the aftermath of a narrow, bloody Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history.

If virtue can be taught, whose virtue will it be? A look at the Socratic recognition of multiculturalism and moral relativism.

Apart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.

As the idea of social science gained force, Hobbes's controversial treatise helped to naturalize the civil realm, readying it for scientific explanation.

The Stoics found in language something that would separate humanity from the animate realm, and that gave Rome a philosophy to civilize the world.

This most famous of Plato's dialogues begins with the metaphor - or perhaps the reality - of the polis (community) as the expanded version of the person, with the fate of each inextricably bound to that of the other.

The leading French thinkers of the 18th century - Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, and Diderot - appealed directly to the ordinary citizen, encouraging skepticism toward traditional authority.