Faculty Books

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How Literatures Begin: A Global History (Princeton University Press), edited by Denis Feeney, professor of classics, and Joel B. Lande, professor of German, is a history of the factors that contributed to literary traditions around the world. This compilation reveals surprising similarities among disparate literary movements.

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In Democracy Rules (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), professor of politics Jan-Werner Müller argues that uncertainty is a component of democracy, a major difference from the predictability of authoritarianism. He argues for the importance of political parties and the free press and calls for reforms to democratic institutions.