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Knowledge Communities eBook Series

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  • The Medieval Life of Language

    Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe

    by Mark Amsler ...
    Series series Knowledge Communities
    The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication is revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Best of All Possible Worlds

    A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

    by Steven Nadler ...
    "I can't imagine a better guide to 17th-century philosophical thought. . . . [It] is written simply and clearly." — Washington PostIn the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Discourse on the Method

    of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences

    Translated by Ian Maclean ...
    by René Descartes ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes'sA Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

    The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

    by Jacques Lacan ...
    In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts. During the seminar he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Understanding John Duns Scotus

    Of realty the rarest-veined unraveller

    by Mary Beth Ingham ...
    Series Book 9 - Franciscan Heritage Series
    In this ninth volume of the Franciscan Heritage Series, Mary Beth Ingham introduces readers to the Franciscan vision and values of Blessed John Duns Scotus (1266-1308). Framed within the context of Franciscan spiritual values, chapters focus on creation and the dignity of each individual being, on cognition and the powers of human knowing, on the proof for God's existence, on the nature of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Matters

    Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering

    by Mara van der Lugt ...
    An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: George Berkeley, Voltaire and David Hume

    by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    What exists? How do we know? What are we going to do about it?These three questions are at the heart of philosophical enquiry, an endeavour which has stretched more than two thousand years. It's multiple branches, including ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and theology, have been pondered over by many a philosopher, and this series from The Independent introduces some of these great minds.The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Introducing Semiotic

    Its History and Doctrine

    by John Deely ...
    This comprehensive survey of semiotics examines its development from pre-Socratic philosophy to Peirce's Sign Theory and beyond.In Introducing Semiotics, renowned philosopher and semiotician John Deely provides a conceptual overview of the field, covering its development across centuries of Western philosophical thought. It delineates the foundations of contemporary semiotics and concretely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul

    An Odyssey

    by Eric McLuhan ...
    In this essay of extraordinary scope and depth, Eric McLuhan explores faith as a form of knowing. He does so against the backdrop of preliterate man’s concrete, bodily submersion in the putting on of poetry and drama (the practice of mimesis) and post-literate man’s bodiless submersion in electronic communication, in which sender and receiver are everywhere and nowhere at once. In traversing the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation Studies

    by Susan Bassnett ...
    Series series New Accents
    At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.Leading translation theorist Susan Bassnett traces the history of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Short History of Linguistics

    by R.H. Robins ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China and Medieval Islam, and especially in India, which was to have a profound effect on European and American linguistics from ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Eucharist as Meaning

    Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology

    by Joseph C. Mudd ...
    This study moves beyond postmodern trends in Catholic eucharistic theology by exploring the works of Bernard Lonergan and Louis-Marie Chauvet: “Having learned from both Chauvet’s critique of metaphysics and Lonergan’s development of a critical metaphysics, we hope to offer a fruitful understanding of traditional eucharistic doctrines that is able to respond to some contemporary problems and shed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD