This volume is a peer-reviewed collection of essays submitted by participants of two joint conferences on the theme of globalization. The essays collected in this volume deal with a wide variety of subjects related to globalization, ranging from the social sciences to the humanities. Globalization Redux contributes to a better understanding of globalization and its ramifications in a host of domains.

By now the basic facts of the Dreyfus Affair are known and beyond dispute. My book condenses a century or more of scholarship but adds significant new knowledge about some of the main figures in the Affair, as well as Dreyfus's heroic struggle for freedom and rehabilitation. It also studies how intellectuals contributed to the Affair and largely defined it and themselves, creating a new class of committed intellectuals who, from time to time, would descend from their Ivory Tower to become involved in something that "strictly speaking was none of their business" (Sartre). I follow the careers...

At the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became aware, first, that his particular brand of bourgeois individualism was becoming increasingly irrelevant in the contemporary world and, second, that social commitment and even revolution could serve as a powerful source of inspiration and self-renewal. Over a ten-year period that began in the 1920s and ended with his public break with the Soviet Union in 1936, Gide the committed...