NEW FROM YALE
Education
BLACK SllU'DIES IN THE UNIVERSITY: A SYMPOSIUM
edited by Armstead L. Robinson, Craig C. Foster,
and Donald H. Ogilvie
Here is the record of whot Yole did to throsh out the intellectual ond politicol
issues connected with estoblishing 0 comprehensive new progrom.
It
includes
stotements by McGeorge Bundy, Lowrence W. Chisolm, Horold Cruse, David
Brion Dovis, Nothon Hare, Mouillno Ron Korengo, Mortin Kilson, Jr., Gerold A.
McWorter, Sidney W. Mintz, Bonifoce Obichere, Donald H. Ogilvie, Dr. Alvin
Poussaint, Edwin Redkey, Armsteod
L.
Robinson, Charles H. Taylor, Jr., and
RQbert F. Thompson. These popers propose no definitive solution but rather
stond os on indispensable pioneering inquiry.
cloth $6.00; paper $1.75
Art History
ALFONSO II AND THE ARTISTIC RENEWAL OF NAPLES.
1485·1495
by George L. Hersey
In a full account of on episode in the Neapolitan Renaissllnce, Mr. Hersey re–
dresses art historical views too often biosed in favor of Florence and Rome as
centers for ort ond architecture. Using the concept of urban renewol, very much
in the fore at the time, the author describes the rebuilding of Naples under
Alfonso 11, showing that it was on immense if incompletely realized program.
This study gives a full account of the sculpture, pointing, and literature of the
period and also gives belated credit to Alfonso as a patron of the arts. $20.00
Philosophy
NIHILISM: A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY
by Stanley Rosen
"We live in on age of anxiety," writes Stanley Rosen, "where optimism is de–
fined as the belief thot moo is 0 mochine, ond where the spirit exists only in
the dread of nothingness." In this brilliant ottock on contemporary philosophical
and political nihilism, Mr. Rosen shows that, as the c10ssical understanding of
nature
III
good was replaced by the modern scientific and technological con–
ception of nature as either hostile or neutral, the relotionship between truth,
on the one hand, and beauty and goodness, on the other, was severed.
$8.50
Poetry
COLLECTED POEMS
available in paperbound
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES AGEE
edited with an Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald
"The esteem of his peers, along with Agee's semisacrificial deoth and his feats
of mogic in the iungle of moss culture, suggests why Agee has become the
Iiterllry inteliectuIII's folk-hero equivllient of Jllmes Dean. It IIlso tells, in
II WilY,
why we have 0 new edition of Agee's only book of poems ... with the uncol–
lected poetry left at his deoth ... What kind of a poet the maturing Agee
might have become seems clearer when we read the poems that followed
Permit Me Voyage."-The New York Times Book Review
paperbound $1.75
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