The Mozartian Historian: Essays on the Works of Joseph R. LevensonThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976. |
Contents
J R L Getting Started | 27 |
Remarks at the Memorial Service | 43 |
An Unreconstructed Review | 50 |
Joseph Levenson on China and the World | 58 |
The Historians Quest | 76 |
Joseph Levensons Approach to History | 91 |
History and Culture in the Thought | 100 |
Tensions | 113 |
A Note on the Development of the Theme | 123 |
Style as Idea in MingChing Painting | 137 |
Cosmopolitanism | 157 |
Notes on The Choice of Jewish Identity | 177 |
Joseph Richmond Levenson Chronology | 195 |
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