Robert M Pattison

The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism

The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka lives on in the lyrics of T...

On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock (Galaxy Books)

SARS: A Case Study in Emerging Infections

The sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (S.A.R.S.) in 2002 served to alert the world to the fact that emerging infections are a global problem. Living in affluent societies with well developed health care systems does not necessarily protect people from the danger...

The Great Dissent: John Henry Newman and the Liberal Heresy

"Alas," Newman said of liberalism, "it is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth." The Great Dissent examines how from his implacable opposition to liberalism Newman developed a sweeping critique of modern values only rivaled in breadth and scorn by that of Nietzsche. The Great Dissent ...

The Sources of The Faust Tradition, from Simon magus to Lessing

James A. Beaver

…as vice president on James Garfield's Republican ticket). He lost to Robert Pattison, but, because the new state constitution of 1874 prohibited governors from serving multiple consecutive terms, Beaver ran again and served as governor for the four years between Pattison's two non-consecutiv...