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  • Studies in Medieval Philosophy

    by Étienne Gilson ...
    Translated by James G. Colbert ...
    Those new to Gilson can get a sense of the theme that dominated most of his life's work in the central essay on the historical significance of Thomism. Those familiar with him will perhaps be surprised by the sympathy with which he treats the more traditional theologians who resisted Aquinas and the Latin Averroists alike. Gilson prolongs his seminal demonstration of Scholastic influence on ... Read more

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  • Philo of Alexandria

    by Jean Danielou SJ ...
    Translated by James G. Colbert ...
    Philo of Alexandria was a few years older than Jesus of Nazareth and lived longer. He belonged to a wealthy and cultured family, prominent in the Jewish community in Alexandria. Philo had contacts with the highest level of Roman authorities. He was on a risky diplomatic mission to Caligula on behalf of the persecuted Jews of Alexandria during what turned out to be Caligula's last days. Herod ... Read more

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  • John Duns Scotus

    Introduction to His Fundamental Positions

    by Etienne Gilson ...
    Translated by Dr James Colbert ...
    Series series Illuminating Modernity
    Étienne Gilson's Jean Duns Scot: Introduction À Ses Positions Fondamentales is widely understood to be one of the most important works on John Duns Scotus' texts, famous for their complexity. James Colbert's translation is the first time that Gilson's work on Scotus has been put into English, with an introduction by Trent Pomplun and an afterword by John Millbank.Scotus contributed to the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV: Love! Literature! Language! Lust! Leopold's Women Bloom

    by James Joyce ...
    Narrated by Stephen Colbert ...
    Series Audiobook 24 - Bloomsday on Broadway

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    Bloomsday on Broadway celebrates June 16, 1904, the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses. Since 1981, Hundreds of acclaimed actors have joined avid Joyceans, writers, critics and scholars on stage at Symphony Space to read selections from the book that heralded the birth of modern literature. Bloomsday on Broadway ... Read more

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  • Medieval Essays

    by Étienne Gilson ...
    Translated by James G. Colbert ...
    This book is a collection of nine articles by the twentieth century's leading medievalist, Etienne Gilson. A major participant in the revival of Thomistic philosophy, Gilson was a member of the French Academy and, after a university career culminating at the Sorbonne and the College de France, he turned down an invitation from Harvard University to become the guiding spirit of the Pontifical ... Read more

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  • Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art

    by Étienne Gilson, Henri Gouhier ...
    Translated by James G. Colbert ...
    A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art. He questioned whether what is reproduced as art in contemporary society is art at all. This is not a simple issue. A cheap version of a novel is still a novel. A picture of a statue is not a statue, nor indeed is a photograph of a painting a painting. Recorded music ... Read more

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  • The Tribulations of Sophia

    by Etienne Gilson ...
    Translated by James G. Colbert ...
    The Tribulations of Sophia was the last of Étienne Gilson's books to appear during his lifetime (1967). French readers would have recognized the title's echo of a nineteenth century children's book by the Countess of Ségur, the Misfortunes of Sophia. Its disobedient protagonist, young Sophia (of whom the American Dennis the Menace was to be a very pale imitation) is the cause of a sequence of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bones for Barnum Brown

    Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter

    by Roland T. Bird ...
    Roland Thaxter Bird, universally and affectionately known to friends and associates as R. T., achieved a kind of Horatio Alger success in the scientific world of dinosaur studies. Forced to drop out of school at a young age by ill health, he was a cowboy who traveled from job to job by motorcycle until he met Barnum Brown, Curator of Vertebrae Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Lux Radio Theatre Collection, Volume 2, The

    by Black Eye Entertainment ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Cecil B. DeMille, Clark Gable, Ingrid Bergman, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Robet Cummings, Fay Wray ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Lux Radio Theatre Collection

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    The Lux Radio Theatre was one of the most prestigious and longest running shows from Radio's Golden Age. It featured the greatest stars in Hollywood appearing in hour-long radio adaptations of their biggest motion pictures. Cecil B. DeMille was the host (from 1936-1945) for a lavish production of what was to become a veritable checklist of many of Hollywood's best films from the mid -1930s through ... Read more

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  • The History of Scepticism

    From Savonarola to Bayle

    by Richard H. Popkin ...
    This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a valuable stimulus to current historical research. In this updated version, he has revised and expanded throughout, and has added three new chapters, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Christus Victor

    by Gustaf Aulén ...
    Dr. Aulén is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Lund, and this book is a translation of the Olaus Petri Lectures delivered by him before the University of Uppsala in March and April, 1930. The same lectures were also delivered in Germany in September, 1930, in a much condensed form, the eight lectures being brought down to three, with the title of Die drei Haupttypen des ... Read more

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

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