Rousseau Etc imprint: 3 books
Rousseau on Language and Writing
Two Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Two contemporary philosophers take two very different approaches to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages, and then each reflects upon the approach of the other. Barry Stocker takes a deconstructionist approach, discussing the importance of Rousseau in the work of Jacques Derrida....
by John M Allegro
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In 1970, John M. Allegro published The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, arguing that the early Christians belonged to a drug cult, their sacrament consisting of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The book contained a large amount of linguistic data to support Allegro’s speculations. In his follow-up book, The...
The Chosen People
A Study of Jewish History from the Time of the Exile until the Revolt of Bar Kocheba
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The Chosen People tells the history of the Jews from the conquest of Jersualem by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 587 B.C.E. to the Second Jewish Revolt of C.E. 132. John Allegro bases his account on traditional texts — books of the Old Testament, Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Dio Cassius, and others —...