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Disenchanting the caliphate
Hayrettin Yücesoy offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition.
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Parmenides
Alain Badiou’s 1985 seminar on Parmenides initiated his ongoing dialogue with the pre-Socratic philosopher and set out some of the foundational ideas of his own major philosophical works, including Being and Event.
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The poetic apriori
Theories about the nature and function of philosophical imagination depend on our understanding of what kind of universe we inhabit. Raymond C. Barfield discusses conditions that would be necessary if the universe is meaningful as a whole, and then develops a theory of philosophical imagination i...
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Global intellectual history
Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may ari...
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Shadows of being
In a review of the work of Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger suggested that his philosophical orientation had skirted by the fundamental path of thought. This book delves into the philosophical sources of this influence and raises the question whether Heidegger indeed made good on the promise to rev...
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The usefulness of crime
In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head.
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The science and humanism of stephen jay gould
Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould’s work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview.Richard York a...
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Trojan horses
A passionate reexamination of the ancient world and the lessons we can draw from antiquityIn today’s turbulent cultural moment, it is all too common for conservatives to invoke the wisdom of the ancient Greeks in the name of timeless virtues. At the same time, critics have charged that multicultu...
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The collective self
Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and enriching contemporary discussions on communal ways of beingWhat if the story we tell ourselves ab...
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Karl marx, historian of social times and spaces
A compelling account of Karl Marx’s relevance for theorizing historical knowledge.
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Plato, aristotle and the transcendence theory of art
Christine Kunkler introduces concepts such as Index-Art and the Aesthetic Syllogism to open future fields of research in Philosophy.
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Corpus dionysiacum iii/2
Die Reihe Patristische Texte und Studien publiziert seit 1963 Forschungsergebnisse, die durch die Patristische Kommission, heute ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen aller deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften, koordiniert werden. In ihr erscheinen Editionen, Kommentare und Monographien zu den Schriften...
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From eternal to everlasting
Chronoi: Time, Time Awareness, Time Management is a book series that presents the work of the Einstein Center Chronoi. The center is dedicated to the investigation of time and time-related subjects such as time awareness, time management, time perception, and temporality from interdisciplinary an...
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Honorius augustodunensis
Über Honorius Augustodunensis (1. Hälfte des 12. Jh.) ist kaum etwas bekannt. Die Schriften dieses produktiven Autors aber waren erstaunlich weit verbreitet, wie hunderte von Handschriften, die seine Werke überliefern, eindrucksvoll belegen. Sein ‚Elucidarium‘, ein Handbuch des christlichen Glaub...
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Women in the socratic tradition
Socrates represents an important turning point not only in the history of philosophy, but also in the morality of gender inequality, for he advanced the unprecedented thesis that the virtue of men and women is the same. The arguments supporting such a thesis, however, are controversial: different...
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What more can we say about seneca?
In recent decades, Seneca’s works — especially his tragedies — have experienced a remarkable resurgence of scholarly interest. This renewed attention is reflected in a growing body of translations, commentaries, and critical studies, underscoring the enduring relevance of his literary and philoso...
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Aristotle in fragments
This book offers a comprehensive study of the fragmentary remains of Aristotle‘s writings in the domains of history, zoology, and rhetorical and literary studies. It explores how these scattered texts were preserved, cited, adapted, and sometimes distorted across centuries of manuscript culture a...
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New approaches to phrynichus’ ›praeparatio sophistica‹
Purism in Antiquity is devoted to the theories of linguistic purism, and more broadly of linguistic correctness, that were developed in the Greek and Roman world, the texts which transmit them, and the way these theories were received in later periods. The volumes in the series adopt a diachroni...
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Methods in medieval latin and arabic philosophy (6th–13th cent.)
The topic of this volume consists in discussing the methods used in the different areas of philosophy during the Latin Middle Ages and in the Islamicate world. The different contributions treat the methods of logic, ethics, philosophical psychology, physics, the mathematical disciplines and metap...
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Volume 4.1: the school of chrysippus: zeno of tarsus and diogenes of babylon
Diogenes of Babylon, also known as Diogenes of Seleucia, was a pupil of Chrysippus and, after Zeno of Tarsus, the fifth head of the Stoic school in Athens, serving until his death, with Antipater of Tarsus and Panaetius among his students. The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain (ca. 23...
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Contradiction and the absolute
Every one of the four major theistic world religions, i.e., Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, holds the existence of a transcendental being. This transcendental being, called by different names, such as God, Allāh, Brahma, etc., has some specific characteristics that, in many cases, app...
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Power and possibility in early arabic philosophy
The series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides access to ancient scientific inquiry as it developed in a continuous tradition from Antiquity to the ...
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Kontingenz und zufall in den altisländischen königssagas
Die altisländischen Königssagas sind einzigartige Erzählungen über Entstehung und Etablierung des skandinavischen Königtums von mythischen Anfängen bis um 1200. Sie erzählen aber keine gradlinige Erfolgsgeschichte, sondern beschäftigen sich auch mit Zufällen und Unwägbarkeiten der nordischen Gesc...
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The religion of philosophers
The concept of religion necessarily splits into two categories, the substantive principles that are polarized about the idea of the revered object, and the manner of' applying them in the private behavior of the worshiper or in the public institutions of the state. Theory and practice are not con...
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On the threshold of exact science
Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible to a broader audience. The seven selections represent both Maier's earlier and later works. Her perceptions as a trained philosophe...
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The great legal philosophers
Aristotle - Cicero - Aquinas - Grotius - Hobbes - Montesquieu - Hume - Rousseau - Kant - Bentham - von Savigny - Hegel - Austin - Mill - von Ihering - Holmes - Ehrlich - Dabin - Dewey - Cardozo - Pound
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The existence of the external world
Do the objects that we perceive though our senses exist autonomously, independent of the mind that perceives them? Three and a half centuries have gone by without a universally acceptable solution. Jean-René Vernes shows that this failure results from the fundamental error in classical thinking, ...
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Understanding history
Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes one step further and brings into question the very ability of historians to...
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Apperception, knowledge, and experience
Postmodernism is sometimes characterized as a loss of faith in reason, a loss of self, and an exaggerated relativism. W.H. Bossart discusses these alleged losses in the light of the “triumph” and subsequent decline of the transcendental turn in philosophy initiated by Kant. Published in English.
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Aristotle, oedipus, and greek religion
Aristotle, Oedipus, and Greek Religion offers a bold exploration of an important religious component of ancient Aristotelianism that impact contemporary philosophical debates. It is also an analysis of universal themes from the viewpoint of an enormously influential ancient thinker, as well an ad...
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Homo interrogans
Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discourse of questioning and answering. John Bruin examines the "logic" of interrogation and makes the case that intentionality itself has the structure of question and answer. Here, he breaks rank with ...
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The yoga of power
This book argues for a wider understanding of yoga, demonstrating that yoga has long expressed political thought and practice.
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On time, being, and hunger
Situating itself within the context of current debates in continental philosophy, and through a series of readings of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida to recent developments in life sciences, this book offers a critical enquiry concerning the traditional way of understanding life in th...
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Philosophical lectures by samuel williams, ll.d., on the constitution, duty, and religion of man
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
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Maurus of salerno
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New fragment of xenocrates and its implications
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Shakespearean issues
A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s playsIn Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare’s plays and also how to write literary cri...
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War and international justice
Can war ever be just? By what right do we charge people with war crimes? Can war itself be a crime? What is a good peace treaty? Since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, many wars have erupted, inflaming such areas as the Persian Gulf, Central Africa and Central Europe. Brutalities committe...
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Big ideas for curious minds
A fun and engaging book designed to harness and develop children's natural philosophical interest.Without prompting children often ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of life. Yet all too often their inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, t...
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Why i am a hindu
A revelatory and original contribution to our understanding of the role of religion in society and politics.
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Batman, superman, and philosophy
Batman or Superman? Which of these heroic figures is morally superior? Which is more dramatically effective? Which is more democratic? Which shows us the better way to fight crime? In Batman, Superman, and Philosophy, 26 philosophers evaluate Superman vs. Batman in order to decide which of them ...
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The lord of the rings and philosophy
Can power be wielded for good, or must it always corrupt? Does technology destroy the truly human? Is beer essential to the good life? The Lord of the Rings raises many such searching questions, and this book attempts some answers. Divided into five sections concerned with power and the Ring, the...
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Hitchcock and philosophy
The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; innocent” birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them so? What deeper forces are at work in Hitchcock’s films that ...
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Do you still think god is good?
Do You Still Think God is Good? makes the "problem of evil" accessible to people like you and me, taking it out of the high halls of academia and into a real-world conversation between down-to-earth but knowledgeable characters.
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The mantram handbook
Use your mantram when you’re ill or anxious, tired or restless, and it will guide you and comfort you like a true friend.The Mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world’s great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Easwaran, the author of Pas...
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The face of the other and the trace of god
The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Derrida. This collection is broadly divided into two parts: relations with the other, ...
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The reflexive method applied to the problem of god in lachelier and lagneau
An engaging and thought-provoking translation of Paul Ricoeur’s earliest work that is essential for understanding his philosophical development The Reflexive Method Applied to the Problem of God in Lachelier and Lagneau, now held in the Ricoeur Archive in Paris, was a qualifying thesis Ricoeur wr...
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Circling the elephant
This book argues that Christian theology must be done in conversation with other religions. The book integrates theology of religious diversity, comparative theology, and constructive theology by moving beyond reified accounts of “religions” that make interreligious learning impossible. The autho...
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The ideology of hatred
The book advances a new theoretical framework for understanding the politics of national hatred as a discourse which characterizes today's many national, ethnic and religious conflicts. It offers a critique of hatred as an ideological apparatus of power that operates within discourse as a defense...
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Carnal hermeneutics
Carnal hermeneutics offers a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. It engages our finite, spatio-temporal being-in-the-world through an account of meanings involving corporeal sensation, orientation, and linguistic articulation, and transcends the traditional dualism of rational u...
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God at play
The first comparative treatment of the topic of līlā in Hindu and Christian traditions, this volume explores what it means to consider divine and human action under the categories of play, wit, drama, grace, and compassionGod at Play presents a theological exploration of the multifaceted motif of...
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Reason, experience, and god
John E. Smith has contributed to contemporary philosophy in primarily four distinct capacities; first, as a philosopher of religion and God; second, as an indefatigable defender of philosophical reflection in its classical sense ( a sense inclusive of, but not limited to, metaphysics); third, as ...
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The perils of uglytown
The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands.
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Flight of the gods
Contemporary continental philosophy approaches metaphysics with great reservation. A point of criticism concerns traditional philosophical speaking about God. Whereas Nietzsche, with his question “God is dead; who killed Him?” was, in his time, highly ‘unzeitgemäß’ and shocking, the twentieth cen...
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The world and god are not-two
Unveiling Divine Unity: 'The World and God Are Not-Two merges Hindu Advaita Vedānta and Christian theology, challenging dualism by exploring the inseparable relationship between God and the world, reshaping our understanding of religious ontology.
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Aspects of alterity
"Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other." This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends. Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, this book asks what it means for something or someone to be other than the self. Levinas and ...
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Nature and spirit
Nature and Spirit: An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism develops an enlarged conception of nature that in turn calls for a transformed naturalism. Unline more descriptive naturalisms, such as those by Dewey, Santayana, and Buchler, ecstatic naturalism works out of the fundamental ontological differenc...
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The word and the cross
In times that have challenged contemporary illusions, many seek to recover the Christian vocabulary of suffering, the cross, and a hope freed of triumphalism and exclusivity. Stanislas Breton presents the “nothingness” of the cross in its infirmity and paradoxical power. Blending the poetic with ...
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Krishna
Krishna ist eine der beliebtesten und vielgestaltigsten Gottheiten des Hinduismus. Der reich bebilderte Band zeigt, wie Krishna seit Jahrhunderten Menschen in Indien und weit darüber hinaus inspiriert: als göttlicher Held, Liebhaber und Lehrer. Internationale Beiträge beleuchten die Gestalt Krish...
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Perspectives on mizo culture
Folktales of Mizoram is a translated collection of sixty-six short stories from northeast India taken up for a critical evaluation. The stories depict a typical Mizo culture in spirit and practice. This study focuses on the transformation of oral literature into written narratives. Folk practices...
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Signs from the future
Santiago Zabala asks us to think of philosophy as a warning, a call to heed ominous “signs from the future.”
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After christianity
What has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the "death of God"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically Christianity, thriving in our postmodern era? In this provocative new book, Gianni Vattimo, leading Italian philosopher, politician, and framer of ...
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The serpent's tale
The Serpent’s Tale traces the intricate global histories of Kuṇḍalinī, from its Sanskrit origins to its popularity in the West.
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Yoga, karma, and rebirth
For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and s...
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The remains of being
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schürmann, Jean-Luc Nancy, ...
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Hermeneutics as critique
Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for addressing many of the urgent issues of today. He shows its utility for unpacking intractable debates in the philosophy of science, multiculturalism, social ...
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The bhāgavata purāna
The Bhāgavata Purāna is a versatile Hindu sacred text containing more than 14,000 Sanskrit verses. Finding its present form around the tenth century C.E., the work inspired several major north Indian devotional traditions as well as schools of dance and drama, and continues to permeate popular Hi...
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Philosophy and poetry
This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry.
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The lives of sri aurobindo
Since his death in 1950, Sri Aurobindo Ghose has been known primarily as a yogi and a philosopher of spiritual evolution who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in peace and literature. But the years Aurobindo spent in yogic retirement were preceded by nearly four decades of rich public and intelle...
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The future of religion
Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religi...
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After the death of god
It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Va...
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Classical indian philosophy
Deepak Sarma completes the first outline in more than fifty years of India's key philosophical traditions, inventively sourcing seminal texts and clarifying language, positions, and issues. Organized by tradition, the volume covers six schools of orthodox Hindu philosophy: Mimamsa (the study of t...
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