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Inroads
Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
This unique introduction to philosophy is designed as a companion volume to a number of classic philosophical texts widely used in first- and upper-year philosophy courses. While remaining clear and readable, Inroads provides detailed analyses of fundamental issues in metaphysics and morals: the...
Modern Modalities
Studies of the History of Modal Theories from Medieval Nominalism to Logical Positivism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The word "modem" in the title of this book refers primarily to post-medieval discussions, but it also hints at those medieval mo dal theories which were considered modem in contradistinction to ancient conceptions and which in different ways influenced philosophical discussions during...
by James Van Cleve
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
James Van Cleve here shows why Thomas Reid (1710-96) deserves a place alongside the other canonical figures of modern philosophy. He expounds Reid's positions and arguments on a wide range of topics, taking interpretive stands on points where his meaning is disputed and assessing the value of his...
by Brenda Assael
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the restaurant (defined broadly, to encompass not merely the...
by Yi Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime-the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress-from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct...
Equestrian Cultures
Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities—from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and therapy—and have figured heavily in the history of...
by Professor Dennis Showalter
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Wars of German Unification is the definitive account of the three of the most decisive conflicts in the history of modern Europe. In this new edition, Dennis Showalter offers a thoroughly updated look at the wars and their context that will be invaluable for those interested in the military, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The years 1650 to 1750 - sandwiched between an age of 'wars of religion' and an age of 'revolutionary wars' - have often been characterized as a 'de-ideologized' period. However, the essays in this collection contend that this is a mistaken assumption. For whilst international relations during this...
Manhood and the Making of the Military
Conscription, Military Service and Masculinity in Finland, 1917–39
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
When Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917, the country had not had a military for almost two decades. The ensuing creation of a new national conscript army aroused intense but conflicting emotions among the Finns. This book examines how a modern conscript army, born out of a civil war,...
Infinite Autonomy
The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality—to consider whether we were right to reject...
Between Philosophy and Religion, Vol. II
Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works_on religion, politics, and ethics_in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. Indeed, Polka argues that Spinoza is biblical only insofar as he is understood to be one of the...
Quest:
A Search for a Soul for Modernkind
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2004
The task before us, in a nutshell, my fellow humans, is the clear and present danger of finding out, who we really are. That is the impossible feat I have given this poor creature, V. Virom, and each of us with him. The proof of the pasta is always in the tasting. So says the author at the beginning...
Descartes's Fictions
Reading Philosophy with Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accommodating multiple perspectives...