Cultural visions : essays in the history of culture

Acknowledgements. INTRODUCTION. Benjamin C. SAX: Truth and Meaning in Cultural History. BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. James Michael WEISS: Varieties of Biography during the Italian Renaissance: Individuality and Beyond. Amy APFEL KASS: Autobiography and American Identity: Another Look at Benjamin Franklin. Milton EDER: Person and Personae in Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth. HISTORIOGRAPHY. James REDFIELD: Thucydides' Argument with the Facts. Benjamin C. SAX: An Acute and Practiced Eye: Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, and the Problem of Cultural History. Margaret OLIN: Art History and Ideology: Alois Riegl and Josef Strzygowski. POLITICS, NATIONALISM, AND CULTURE. Larry SILVER: Caesar Ludens: Emperor Maximilian I and the Waning Middle Ages. E. INMAN FOX: Spain as Castile: The Making of a National Culture. Alcyone SCOTT: Thomas Mann and World War I: Germanness under Siege. CULTURAL TRANSLATION. Alan MENDELSON: The Dialectics of Reward and Punishment in Philo of Alexandria. Katy O'BRIEN WEINTRAUB: O Sancte Socrate, Ora pro Nobis: Erasmus on the Problem of Athens and Jerusalem. Zachary SAYRE SCHIFFMAN: Jean Bodin, Roman Law, and the Renaissance Conception of the Past. Penny SCHINE GOLD: Making the Bible Modern: Translating Biblical Culture for Jewish American Children in the Early Twentieth Century. Contributors.