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  • Utopia 1516-2016

    More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath

    Edited by Giulia Sissa, Han van Ruler ...
    This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity

    Edited by Clifford Ando, Professor Thomas Habinek, Giulia Sissa ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Ranging from knowledge to nature, the human self to the linguis... ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion

    by Giulia Sissa ...
    Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful.Yet for centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling that, in ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination

    Edited by Giulia Sissa, Francesca Martelli ...
    Series series Ancient Environments
    This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Western Self-Contempt

    Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations

    by Benedict Beckeld ...
    Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self-hatred and its cyclical recurrence. Benedict Beckeld explores oikophobia, described by its coiner Sir Roger Scruton as "the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition

    Edited by John Sellars ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The ancient philosophy of stoicism has been a crucial and formative influence on the development of Western thought since its inception through to the present day. It is not only an important area of study in philosophy and classics, but also in theology and literature.The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition is the first volume of its kind, and an outstanding guide and reference source to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Tragedy in Ovid

    Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre

    by Dan Curley ...
    Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelong interest in the genre of tragedy, which informed his later poetry and enabled him to continue his career as a tragedian – if only on the page instead of the stage. This book surveys tragic characters ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

    Edited by Michael J. MacDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again "contagious" and "communicable" (Friedrich Nietzsche). Featuring sixty commissioned chapters by eminent scholars of rhetoric from twelve ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Hermes Complex

    Philosophical Reflections on Translation

    by Charles Le Blanc ...
    Translated by Barbara Folkart ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he transmitted. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Hatred of Literature

    by William Marx ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of literature as seen through the eyes of its adversaries: philosophers, theologians, scientists, pedagogues, and even leaders of modern liberal democracies. From Plato to C. P. Snow to Nicolas Sarkozy, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Shipwreck Sea

    Love Poems and Essays in a Classical Mode

    by Jeffrey M. Duban ...
    Sappho, in the words of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), was "simply nothing less – as she is certainly nothing more – than the greatest poet who ever was at all." Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho, the namesake lesbian, wrote amorously of men and women alike, exhibiting both masculine and feminine tendencies in her poetry and life. What's left of her ... Read more

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  • Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture

    Thresholds of History

    Edited by Elizabeth D. Harvey, Theresa Krier ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce Irigaray's thought, and the impact that her writings have had on our understanding ... Read more

    $72.99 USD