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  • Chinese Sympathies

    Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

    by Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established ... Read more

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  • On the Ruins of Babel

    Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

    by Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural ... Read more

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
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    In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, ... Read more

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  • Latin

    by Jürgen Leonhardt ...
    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... Read more

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  • Social History of Art, Volume 1

    From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

    by Arnold Hauser ...
    First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Thought of Pope Benedict XVI new edition

    An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger

    by Aidan Nichols ...
    Aidan Nichols' timely book is the first full-scale investigation of Joseph Ratzinger's theology, from the 1950s to the present day. It presents a chronological account of the development of Ratzinger's writing that reflects a wide range of historical and theoretical interests. A comprehensive introduction to a figure who is in his own right, quite apart from his significance in the politics of the ... Read more

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  • Esotericism and the Academy

    Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

    by Wouter J. Hanegraaff ...
    Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late antiquity that ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Nationalism

    An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

    by Caspar Hirschi ...
    In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the ... Read more

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  • Not Thinking like a Liberal

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive that for most people in the West it is background noise, the natural state of affairs. But there are nooks and crannies in every society where the ... Read more

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  • Pantheon

    A New History of Roman Religion

    Translated by David M. B. Richardson ...
    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial ... Read more

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  • Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning

    by Gunter Bandmann, Hans Böker ...
    Translated by Kendall Wallis ...
    At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful ... Read more

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  • ABC: The Alphabetizaton of the Popular Mind

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    In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and attitudes, on memory, on political groupings and religous and cultural expectations. Their ... Read more

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