Leavis’s Way
The Living Principle: "English" as a Discipline of Thought
by F.R. Leavis
June 1, 1978 issue
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D. W. Harding (1906–1993) was a British psychologist and literary critic. In1933 he joined FR Leavis as an editor of Scrutiny, where much of his literary criticism appeared, but also work, notably on aggression, that led to The Impulse to Dominate and Social Psychology and Individual Values.
Leavis’s Way
The Living Principle: "English" as a Discipline of Thought
by F.R. Leavis
June 1, 1978 issue
Home Remedies
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (hardcover) and $4.00 (paper))
by Ivan Illich
April 17, 1975 issue
Soul Food
Is There "Life" on Earth? An Introduction to Gurdjieff
by J.G. Bennett
Gurdjieff: Making a New World
by J.G. Bennett
Views from the Real World: Early Talks of Gurdjieff
As Recollected by His Pupils
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution
by P.D. Ouspensky
Talks with a Devil
by P.D. Ouspensky
July 18, 1974 issue
Crazy Mixed-up Kids
Sybil
by Flora Rheta Schreiber
Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family
by Morton Schatzman
June 14, 1973 issue
Good-by Man
The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences (A translation of Les Mots et les choses)
by Michel Foucault
August 12, 1971 issue
The Eyes Have It
The Measurement of Sensation: A Critique of Perceptual Psychophysics
by C. Wade Savage
Selective History of Theories of Visual Perception: 1650-1950
by Nicholas Pastore
The Intelligent Eye
by R.L. Gregory
Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing
by R.L. Gregory
The World Through Blunted Sight
by Patrick Trevor-Roper
April 22, 1971 issue
Blood, Sweat, & Cholesterol
The Pathology of Leadership: A History of the Effects of Disease on 20th-Century Leaders
by Hugh L'Etang
George III and the Mad Business
by Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter
January 28, 1971 issue
Your Move
Prisoner's Dilemma
by Anatol Rapoport and Albert M. Chammah
Strategy and Conscience
by Anatol Rapoport
Two-Person Game Theory: The Essential Ideas
by Anatol Rapoport
Fights, Games, and Debates
by Anatol Rapoport
May 21, 1970 issue
How’s your Gestalt?
The Task of Gestalt Psychology
by Wolfgang Köhler, with an Introduction by Carroll C. Pratt
December 18, 1969 issue
Much Madness
Brain Storms: A Study of Human Spontaneity
by Wayne Barker
Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality
by Victor C. Ferkiss
September 11, 1969 issue
Basic Richards
So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World English
by I.A. Richards
Design for Escape: World Education Through Modern Media
by I.A. Richards
May 8, 1969 issue
Trompe l’oeil
Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting
by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker
War and Peace in the Global Village
by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, co-ordinated by Jerome Agel
McLuhan: Pro & Con
edited by Raymond Rosenthal
Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan
by Sidney Finkelstein
January 2, 1969 issue
Thanks for the Memory
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
by A.R. Luria
May 9, 1968 issue
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