University Of Notre Dame Press: 347 books

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by Robert C. Miner
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002

In this lucid and probing study, Robert C. Miner argues that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was the architect of a subversive, genealogical approach to modernity. Miner documents the genesis of Vico's stance toward modernity in the first phase of his thought. Through close examination of his early...
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Augustine Our Contemporary

Examining the Self in Past and Present

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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

In the massive literature on the idea of the self, the Augustinian influence has often played a central role. The volume Augustine Our Contemporary, starting from the compelling first essay by David W. Tracy, addresses this influence from the Middle Ages to modernity and from a rich variety of perspectives,...
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by Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1982

St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas's continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas, McInerny shows how the thoughts of Aristotle, Boethius, and Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius were assimilated into...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012

Cicero’s Practical Philosophy marks a revival over the last two generations of serious scholarly interest in Cicero’s political thought. Its nine original essays by a multidisciplinary group of distinguished international scholars manifest close study of Cicero’s philosophical writings and great...
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Back to the Rough Ground

Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique

by Joseph Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997

Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of disciplines such as education, psychotherapy,...
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Adam's Curse

Reflections on Religion and Literature

by Denis Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001

W. B. Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse" provides Donoghue with motif and incentive. In Genesis God says to Adam: "Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake;...
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The Sword and the Pen

Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena

by Konrad Eisenbichler
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555....
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by Margaret Porette, Edmund Colledge, O.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1999

This translation from the French original includes an introductory interpretive essay by Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., Judith Grant, and J. C. Marler, and a foreword by Kent Emery, Jr. The translators of this Modern English version rely primarily on the original French manuscript, yet also take medieval...
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Godly Letters

The Literature of the American Puritans

by Michael J. Colacurcio
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006

In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative and creative qualities of America's...
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by Richard Rankin Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014

Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian...
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Fleshly Tabernacles

Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary England

by Bryan Adams Hampton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

In Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Milton’s imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic symbol, theological event, and narrative picture of humanity’s potential, the Incarnation profoundly governs the way Milton structures his 1645 Poems,...
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by Ken Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry...
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Tropologies

Ethics and Invention in England, c.1350-1600

by Ryan McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative”...
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Prophets of the Posthuman

American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood

by Christina Bieber Lake
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014

Prophets of the Posthuman provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement technologies. Christina Bieber Lake argues that works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor,...
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