4,642円 The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and ideas about governance are treated as an extension of commentary on sacred texts. Disenchanting the Caliphate offers a groundbreaking new account ...

9,154円 This is a critical edition of a newly discovered Greek manuscript: a full commentary from Codex 199, Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, entitled ‘Wisdom of Solomonーan interpretation of Solomon’s Book of Wisdom, by Origen, as they say’. The book includes critical apparatus, commenta...

590円 Neste ensaio satírico publicado em 1511, a Loucura elogia a si mesma como a verdadeira imperatriz da humanidade. Em uma crítica explícita ao racionalismo e à escolástica, Erasmo de Rotterdam enaltece a natureza humana e oferece um espelho para que a sociedade possa divertir-se e até mesmo rir de ...

15,800円 In this book, philosopher Jean W. Rioux extends accounts of the Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to what Thomas Aquinas was able to import from Aristotle’s notions of pure and applied mathematics, accompanied by his own original contributions to them. Rioux sets these accounts side-by-side ...

2,800円 De Biblos-serie van Willem Glaudemans is een succesvolle reeks boeken. Hoe is deze serie ontstaan en hoe hangen de verschillende delen samen? Daarover gaat dit boekje: ' Boek der wonderen, het verhaal van de Biblos-serie'. Het geeft enige biografische achtergronden maar wil vooral demonstreren ho...

31,507円 Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy. In updating this Seventh Edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late-Walter Kaufmann w...

5,068円 Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany. B...

1,126円 Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in ...

5,068円 Lev Shestov's By Faith Alone confrontsEastern and Western European conceptions of faith through Russian literature, ancient and medieval philosophy, and Christian theology. Written from 1910-1914, this first English-language translation brings together important early writings on the medieval chu...

15,800円 Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural...

2,560円 Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that thes...

18円 Spinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work . Other readers have lo...