Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka's lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in -Little Fable- to the absurd humor of -Investigations of a Dog, - from the elaborate waking nightmare of -Building the Great Wall of China- to the creeping unease of -The Burrow, - where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.

Habermas's Public Sphere: A Critique analyzes the evolution of Juergen Habermas's social and political theory from the 1950s to the present by focusing on the explicit and on the tacit changes in his thinking about The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, his global academic bestseller, which has been translated into 30 languages. Integrating -public sphere, - -discourse, - and -reason, - the three categories at the center of his lifelong work as a scholar and as a public intellectual, Habermas's classic public sphere concept has deeply influenced an unusually high number of...