History Criticism category: 15616 books
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film,...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what...
Infinite Regress
The Theory and History of Varieties of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the question: Where do we go from here? It is primarily with intelligent beings that we ask: How did we get to where...
Modernity and the Final Aim of History
The Debate over Judaism from Kant to the Young Hegelians
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is intended for scholars and students in humanities, history, Jewish studies, philosophy, Christian theology, and for those concerned with the roots of anti-Semitism and with the need for toleration and intercultural pluralism. The book combines the development of German philosophy from...
The Books of Nature and Scripture
Recent Essays on Natural Philosophy, Theology and Biblical Criticism in the Netherlands of Spinoza’s Time and the British Isles of Newton’s Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and...
by Nicholas Bunnin, Professor David Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
A high school drop-out who served in the American army and then managed to slip into Oxford on the G.I. bill, Frank Cioffi gained a considerable public reputation in Freudian and Wittgensteinian circles. Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-Sleeves is an account of his conversation written in a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2021
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2021
The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient,...
by Pierre Hyacinthe Azaïs
Language: French
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, a été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.
Extrait de la préface :
AU moment où, sur tous les sujets d’une plus ou moins grande...
Literatur im sozialen Prozess des langen 19. Jahrhunderts
Zur Ideengeschichte und zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur
Language: German
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Schriftsteller beanspruchen im Prozess der Modernisierung eine wichtige Rolle als Verfasser von Dorfromanen, als nationale Propagandisten in den Befreiungskriegen, als Mitspieler in der Literatur der französischen Moderne (Heinrich Heine), als Träger des deutschen Nationalbewusstseins und als Begründer...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The renaissance period has so much to share and to teach today’s young children. This book is all about the crazy but really impressive inventions made during the said period. Bring renaissance back to life in the eyes of your little ones when you buy this book. Go ahead and get a copy today.
Three Critics of the Enlightenment
Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is...
Hume
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the...
The First Modern Jew
Spinoza and the History of an Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's...
How the French Think
An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
An award-winning historian presents an absorbing account of the French mind, shedding light on France's famous tradition of intellectual life
Why are the French such an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? The French take pride in the fact that their history and culture...