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  • The Subtle Subtext

    Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life

    by Laurent Pernot ...
    Translated by W. E. Higgins ...
    Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication.In this book, renowned classicist and scholar of rhetoric Laurent Pernot explores the fascinating world of ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • On Literature

    by Umberto Eco ...
    A wide-ranging collection of essays on the importance and meaning of literature by "one of the most influential thinkers of our time" ( Los Angeles Times).In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his long and celebrated career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to ... Read more

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  • The Proper Study Of Mankind

    An Anthology of Essays

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    ‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of BooksIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his best essays in which his insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of today.The full (and enormous) range of his work ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Radical Enlightenment

    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

    $54.89 USD

  • The Roots of Romanticism

    Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth centuryIn The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity

    Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Three Critics of the Enlightenment

    Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is pleased to return to print, under one cover, Berlin's essays on these celebrated and captivating ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Against the Current

    Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • European Literary History

    An Introduction

    Edited by Maarten De Pourcq, Sophie Levie ...
    This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining other key texts of the period and their place within European Literature. Offering a view of Europe as an evolving cultural space and examining ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • New Rhetoric, The

    A Treatise on Argumentation

    by Chaïm Perelman, L. Olbrechts-Tyteca ...
    The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since “argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced,” says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they rely, in particular, for their theory of argumentation on the twin concepts of universal and particular audiences: while every argument is directed ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Theory of the Novel

    by Guido Mazzoni ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy. Indebted to Lukács and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido Mazzoni’s Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a historical understanding of how the novel became the modern book of life: one ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Nature of Narrative

    Revised and Expanded

    by Robert Scholes, James Phelan, Robert Kellogg ...
    For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out ... Read more

    $19.99 USD