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  • Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early Medieval Celtic World

    by Bernard Mees, Toms Carragin, Meredith Cutrer, Penny Nash, Constant Mews, Stephen Joyce, Roxanne Bodsworth, Cynthia Neville, Carole Cusack ...
    Series series Sydney Series in Celtic Studies
    Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies on Celtic inscriptions, religious travel, settlement, penance and prophecy in medieval Celtic nations. The contributors explore the themes of memory, fate and prophecy to capture the worldview of early Celtic speaking nations and challenge the reader to consider what connections can be drawn ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500

    Edited by Karen Green, Constant Mews ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women. It is the first to explore how women were represented and addressed within medieval discussions of the virtues. It introduces readers to the little studied Speculum Dominarum (Mirror of Ladies), a mirror for a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Utopia (1516) by Thomas More presents an imaginary New World island of Utopia to the readers. It envisions a compact, self-sustaining community set on an island on which people share a way of life. The book offers an earnest portrayal of a choicer way of life and is a satire on the tumultuous European politics during More’s times. It introduces three characters−Thomas More, Peter Giles, and ... 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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Desmond M. Clarke, Catherine Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The period between the publication ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Anselm

    Edited by Brian Davies, Brian Leftow ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), Benedictine monk and the second Norman archbishop of Canterbury, is regarded as one of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages. The essays in this volume explore all of his major ideas both philosophical and theological, including his teachings on faith and reason, God's existence and nature, logic, freedom, truth, ethics, and key ... Read more

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  • Passions in William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology

    by Vesa Hirvonen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

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