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  • Dreams and Suicides

    The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

    by Suzanne Macalister ...
    This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. In ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dream of Enlightenment

    The Rise of Modern Philosophy

    by Anthony Gottlieb ...
    One of Slate’s 10 Best Books of the YearAnthony Gottlieb’s landmark The Dream of Reason and its sequel challenge Bertrand Russell’s classic as the definitive history of Western philosophy.Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

    Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray ...
    A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast--it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the visual arts to military strategy and science. This authoritative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The New Science of Politics

    An Introduction

    by Eric Voegelin ...
    Series series Walgreen Foundation Lectures
    "Must be considered one of the most enlightening essays on the character of European politics that has appeared in half a century… powerful and vivid."— Times Literary Supplement"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of Modern Philosophy

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 3

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of great ideas and intellectual systems that shaped modern thought. Kenny introduces us to some of the world's most original and influential thinkers, and shows us the way ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • I Think, Therefore I Am

    All the Philosophy You Need to Know

    by Lesley Levene ...
    Series Book 7 - I Used to Know That
    Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And is it really as irrelevant as it sometimes seems? I Think, Therefore I Am is the ideal way to ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    by Boethius, Peter Walsh ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy. This work dominated ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Friendship

    by A. C. Grayling ...

    $20.99 USD

  • The SPCK Introduction to Kierkegaard

    by Dr Peter Vardy ...
    Series series SPCK Introductions
    This is a book about a remarkable man - yet in an important sense it is not about this man at all.Soren Kierkegaard died in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the age of forty-two in 1855. His writings had little influence in his lifetime and after his death, even with the translation of some of his works into German, he was barely known. Yet today, he is internationally accepted as one of the world's ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • From Shame to Sin

    by Kyle Harper ...
    The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Greek Magic

    Ancient, Medieval and Modern

    Edited by John Petropoulos ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is probably the most ancient and durable among social and religious phenomena known to classical and other scholars, and it can be traced over a span of some ... Read more

    $77.99 USD