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  • Prophecy

    The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy

    by Howard Kreisel ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to God's divine Truth when it is beheld by minds limited in their power to apprehend, and influenced by ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    Of a Republic's Best State and of the New Island Utopia

    by Thomas More ...
    Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries. ... Read more

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  • Dream of Reason

    A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

    by Anthony Gottlieb ...
    "His book...supplant[s] all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell."—A. C. GraylingAlready a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Philosophy Bites Back

    by David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton ...
    Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the groundbreaking modern thought of Wittgenstein, Rawls, and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire

    Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism

    by Sarah Pessin ...
    Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol's original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a 'theology of desire' at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will. Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of the ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne

    Edited by Ullrich Langer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. He is the first European writer to be intensely interested in the representations of his own intimate life, including not just his ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The History of Medieval Philosophy

    Selected Figures of Scholastic Tradition I

    by Ladislav Tkáčik ...
    Series Book 8 - Uni Slovakia
    Calling an epoch Middle Age already involves some sort of judgment. But Middle Ages represent a historic period, in which the identity was established, which was denied by the renaissance, modern world and which however is now being discovered again in its sense and beauty. It is a period in which a co-existence between faith and intellect, between ecclesiastical and profane culture was possible. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Boethius

    Edited by John Marenbon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Boethius (c.480–c.525/6), though a Christian, worked in the tradition of the Neoplatonic schools, with their strong interest in Aristotelian logic and Platonic metaphysics. He is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison awaiting execution. His works also include a long series of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and some short but densely-argued ... Read more

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  • Interpreting Avicenna

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Peter Adamson ...
    Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Contributions from leading scholars address a wide range of topics including Avicenna's life and works, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Sublime

    From Antiquity to the Present

    Edited by Timothy M. Costelloe ...
    This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's introduction and fifteen chapters written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Part One examines philosophical approaches advanced ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy

    Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers

    by Karen J. Warren, Therese Boos Dykeman, Eve Browning, Judith Chelius Stark, Jane Duran, Marilyn Fischer, Lois Frankel, Edward Fullbrook, Jo Ellen Jacobs, Vicki Harper0, Joy Laine1, Kate Lindemann2, Elizabeth K. Minnich3, Andrea Nye4, Margaret Simons5, Audun Solli6, Catherine Villanueva Gardner7, Mary Ellen Waithe8, Henry West9 ...
    Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present. Karen ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Uncommon Sense

    The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers

    by Andrew Pessin ...
    In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums—by asserting some very strange things. But the great philosophers don’t merely make unusual claims, they offer powerful arguments for those claims that you can’t easily dismiss. And these arguments suggest that the world is ... Read more

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