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Stalinist City Planning
Professionals, Performance, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii...
Pindar's 'Olympian One'
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Drawing on an extensive knowledge of the critical history of Olympian One, Professor Gerber here presents a thorough analysis of the language thought, myth, structure, and poetic technique of Pindar's most famous ode. He deals with virtually every word in the poem, elucidating disputed passages, defining...
The University and the New World
York University Invitation Lecture Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This is the first volume in the Invitation Lecture Series of York University and it is an auspicious beginning. Three leaders in higher education in the United States here present their thoughts on challenging questions of enrolment, curriculum, and standards which today confront the ever expanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary...
by Anthony Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's...
Parmenides of Elea
A text and translation with an introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding Parmenides'...
by Ross Dealy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian...
The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks
Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2007
It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects...
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks.
Grounded...
The Letter and the Cosmos
How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation’s statement that Jesus is “the Alpha and Omega,” we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence...
A Croce Reader
Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Benedetto Crocewas a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century.
A Croce Reader brings together the author’s most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents...
Shorter Papers
Volume 20
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
As a prolific scholar and theologian, Bernard Lonergan authored a significant amount of material aside from the works with which he is commonly associated. Shorter Papers is a collection of lesser-known items written by Lonergan over the course of his career. Together, they offer privileged access...
by Jessica Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer’s epic poems – the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger...
Erasmus and Voltaire
Why They Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Despite comparisons between Erasmus and Voltaire having become common-place in the course of the nineteenth century, this is the first full study to bring them together in their careers, their works, and their historic afterlives. Each was a force for change in his time and thus ranks among the masters...