Bücher von Michael Heller

In these recent writings Heller deepens his exploration of poetry, articulating a sense of poetic language's inscription and trace, often with respect to aspects of Judaic thought and Buddhist influences.

The Choice Theory of Contracts is an engaging landmark in law and jurisprudence that shows, for the first time, exactly why and how freedom matters to contract. This concise, readable book gives contract scholars, teachers, and students a coherent liberal account that clarifies canonical cases and solves long-standing doctrinal puzzles.

Philosophy in Science explores the concepts of space, time, and causality, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the theories of contemporary science.

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. This thoughtful book explores the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The authors are eminent cosmologists and theologists.

We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. This book examines how far our modern cosmological theories - with their sometimes audacious models, such as inflation, cyclic histories, quantum creation, parallel universes - can take us towards answering these questions.

These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry. Dealing with major figures from the past and poets in more contemporary modernist and post-modernist lineages, they examine how these poets articulate, virtually in the same breath, both affirmation and doubt concerning poetry, history and knowledge.

These essays cover the range of Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots through his abandonment of poetry for political activism in the thirties to his renewed poetic output after the 1950s.

Transforms Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max Beckmann.