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  • The Making of the Humanities

    Volume 1 - Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn ...
    This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, literary theory, and other disciplines highlight the intertwining of the various fields and their impact on the sciences. This first volume in the series The Making of the Humanities focuses on the early modern period. Different ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • World of Patterns

    A Global History of Knowledge

    by Rens Bod ...
    Translated by Leston Buell ...
    A comprehensive account of the methods of knowledge production throughout human history and across the globe.The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40,000 years ago, when striped patterns were engraved on ... Read more

    $54.09 USD

  • The Humanities in the World

    by Rens Bod, Stefan Collini, Onora O'Neill ...
    Three essays highlight the worldliness of the humanities in this short book edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, a Danish Professor of Comparative Literature. "We need a better account of what the humanities are, what humanist scholars do and how they do it, what is done with the knowledge they produce, and how this knowledge seeps into society and other institutions and sciences through multiple ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Making of the Humanities, Volume III

    The Modern Humanities

    Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn ...
    This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the natural and social sciences, offering new perspectives on the interaction between disciplines in Europe and Asia and new insights generated by digital humanities. ... Read more

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  • The Making of the Humanities

    Volume II - From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines

    Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn ...
    This much-awaited second volume investigates the changes in subject, method and institutional context of the humanistic disciplines around 1800, offering a wealth of insights for specialists and students alike. Point of departure is the pivotal question whether there was a paradigm shift in the humanities around 1800 or whether these changes were part of a much longer process. The authors provide ... Read more

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    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    by Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

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  • Modern Philosophy

    From 1500 CE to the Present

    by Brian Duignan ...
    Series series The History of Philosophy
    Concerned more with rationality, human nature, and human interaction with society and the world than the theological questions of the Middle Ages, contemporary philosophy has advanced study of the limits of the human mind. This insightful volume traces the evolution of present-day Western philosophy and the diverging methods of inquiry that continue to inform a wide range of disciplines. ... 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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  • Sediments of Time

    On Possible Histories

    by Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment

    History of an Idea

    by Vincenzo Ferrone ...
    Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino ...
    A compelling reevaluation of the Enlightenment from one of its leading historiansIn this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it ... Read more

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  • The Sciences of the Soul

    The Early Modern Origins of Psychology

    by Fernando Vidal ...
    Translated by Saskia Brown ...
    Fernando Vidal's trailblazing text on the origins of psychology traces the development of the discipline from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Originally published in 2011, The Sciences of the Soul continues to be of wide importance in the history and philosophy of ... Read more

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  • The Kingdom of Man

    Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project

    by Rémi Brague ...
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    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de l’homme, the last volume of Rémi Brague's trilogy on the philosophical development of anthropology in the West, Brague argues that, with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early ... Read more

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