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  • Birth Of A Worldview

    Early Christianity In Its Jewish And Pagan Context

    by Robert Doran ...
    This book explores how early Christian intellectuals expressed their understanding of the cosmos. It reviews the role of women, documentation of the vitality and influence of Jewish intellectual thought, and the continuing impact of Greek intellectual thought during Christianity's formative years. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Characterizations of C* Algebras

    the Gelfand Naimark Theorems

    by Robert Doran ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics
    The first unified, in-depth discussion of the now classical Gelfand-Naimark theorems, thiscomprehensive text assesses the current status of modern analysis regarding both Banachand C*-algebras.Characterizations of C*-Algebras: The Gelfand-Naimark Theorems focuses on general theoryand basic properties in accordance with readers' needs ... provides complete proofs of theGelfand-Naimark theorems as ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Birth of a Worldview

    Early Christianity in its Jewish and Pagan Context

    by Robert Doran ...
    Birth of a Worldview is a groundbreaking intellectual history of the making of the worldview that came to define western Christian culture for two millennia. Using a broad range of primary sources, Robert Doran narrates the story of how early thinkers wrestled with philosophical and cultural questions in order to form a view that would make sense of their place in the world. This engaging book ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant

    by Robert Doran ...
    In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Liszt and Virtuosity

    by Robert Doran, Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke, Shay Loya, David Keep, Dolores Pesce, Jim Samson, Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Kregor, Kenneth Hamilton, Nicolas Dufetel0, Olivia Sham1 ...
    In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A flamboyant performer whose hair-raising technical feats at the piano created a sense of awe-inspiring excitement andan icon whose star power radiated far beyond the realm of music, Liszt was, along with his early model, Paganini, among the first major performer-composers to define ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Lactones and the Development of a Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Aryl Ketones

    by Robert Doran ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This thesis addresses two fundamental areas in contemporary organic chemistry: synthesis of natural products and catalytic asymmetric synthesis. Firstly, a new methodology, developed by our research group, which allows the asymmetric synthesis of lactones, a structural unit ubiquitous in natural products, was utilised in the synthesis of a number of natural product analogues that showed ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Method in Theology

    Volume 14

    by Bernard Lonergan ...
    Series Book 14 - Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
    Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan’s most important work. It is Lonergan’s answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution, the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in his refusal to be defeatist on this point. While agreeing that theology must continually change to ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Ethics of Theory

    Philosophy, History, Literature

    by Professor Robert Doran ...
    In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichotomy typically drawn between the theoretical and the ethical, the analytical and the prescriptive.In a series of discrete but interrelated interventions, Doran exposes the ethical underpinnings of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Ethics of Narrative

    Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017

    by Hayden White ...
    The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the first volume, volume 2 features White's trenchant articulations of his influential theories, as well as his explorations of a wide range of ideas and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • René Girard and Creative Mimesis

    by Wolfgang Palaver, Nancy Popp, Robert Doran, Richard McGuigan, Pablo Bandera, Andrew O'Shea, Francis Tobienne Jr., Petra Steinmair-Pösel, Christina Biava, Martha Reineke, Patrick Imbert, Joachim Duyndam, Robin Collins, André Lascaris, Thomas E. Reynolds ...
    For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive dimensions of mimetic phenomena without expanding on what they might be. Now, two decades later, this ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Philosophy of History After Hayden White

    Edited by Professor Robert Doran ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy
    This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation between history and literature. Representing a variety of disciplines and approaches, the ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Trinity in History

    A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions

    by Robert M. Doran SJ ...
    Series Book 1 - Lonergan Studies - Trinity In History
    The Trinity in History is the first volume in a new series by Robert M. Doran that uses the thought of Bernard Lonergan to develop a unified field structure for systematic work in theology. Building on his successful and thought-provoking Theology and the Dialectics of History and What Is Systematic Theology?, Doran works out a starting point for a contemporary theology of history and proposes a ... Read more

    $45.39 USD