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  • The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium

    Edited by Juan Signes Codoñer, Martin Hinterberger, Inmaculada Pérez Martín ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature. Due to the lack of recent systematic research on the totality of Byzantine literature, which embraces a long millennium of texts, the fluid concept of ‘rewriting’, here studied for the first time in all its complexity, serves as a unifying ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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    by Prof Jonathan I. Israel ...
    A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if ... Read more

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  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    by Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Best of All Possible Worlds

    A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

    by Steven Nadler ...
    "I can't imagine a better guide to 17th-century philosophical thought. . . . [It] is written simply and clearly." — Washington PostIn the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Serendipities

    Language and Lunacy

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy

    A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6

    by Peter Adamson ...
    Series series A History of Philosophy
    Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he traces the development of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from such early figures as John of Damascus in ... Read more

    $17.89 CAD

  • Latin

    by Jürgen Leonhardt ...
    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • How To Read Montaigne

    by Terence Cave ...
    Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the Essais (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental landscape: the project of ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae

    A Biography

    by Bernard McGinn ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The life and times of the most important theological work of medieval ChristendomThis concise book tells the story of the most important theological work of the Middle Ages, the vast Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and 1273, the Summa was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional guide for teachers and novices ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism

    by Willem J. Van Asselt, Joel R. Beeke, Jay T. Collier ...
    Series series Reformed Historical-Theological Series
    This work supplies a long-standing need in the field of early modern studies by providing a basic introduction to Reformed Scholasticism. Although technical studies abound and interest in the subject continues to rise, until the appearance of this work by Willem van Asselt and his colleagues, students of history have lacked a concise guide to help them navigate the difficult waters of Reformed ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Guide to Thomas Aquinas

    by Josef Pieper ...
    One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings.Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with ... Read more

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  • Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

    Edited by Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil ...
    This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space.The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point ... Read more

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