Humane Studies Review - Fall 1987

A Research and Study Guide

PDF Version Institute for Humane Studies 9/1/1987

Volume 5, Number 1

Inside HSR:

• Is reading a political act? What is the relationship between author, text, and reader? Professor of literature Stephen Cox offers a classical liberal theory of literary criticism. 
  
• What role does entrepreneurship play in a market economy? How are competition and the discovery
  of knowledge related? Economist Esteban F. Thomsen examines the literature on prices, discovery, and entrepreneurship.
  
• What is power? How is it defined, and what role does it play in theoretical social science? Political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur reviews a new book on power.
  
• Discussion: Philosophers Eric Mack and Tibor Machan discuss current issues in moral and political philosophy.