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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016

Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the Christian Emperor Justinian stopped the teaching of the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. This was one of the earliest examples of the sixth-century diffusion of the philosophy...
by Professor John M. Rist
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. John Rist takes the reader through Augustine's ethics, the arguments he made and how he arrived at them, and shows how this moral philosophy remains vital...
by Kostas Kalimtzis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

Though the ancient Greek philosophical concept of scholê is usually translated as 'leisure', there is a vast difference between the two. Leisure, derived from Latin licere,has its roots in Roman otium and connotes the uses of free time in ways permitted by the status quo. Scholê is the actualization...

Victorian Horace

Classics and Class

by Stephen Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the discipline...

Dante's Sacred Poem

Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to The Divine Comedy

by Dr Sheila J. Nayar
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy, this book is the first comprehensive exploration of the theme of transubstantiation across Dante's epic poem. Drawing attention first to the historical and theological tensions inherent...
by Antonio Donato
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013

In the last fifty years the field of Late Antiquity has advanced significantly. Today we have a picture of this period that is more precise and accurate than before. However, the study of one of the most significant texts of this age, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, has not benefited enough from...

Humanism and Embodiment

From Cause and Effect to Secularism

by Susan E. Babbitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and...

Aristotle Transformed

The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence

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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. First published in 1990, the collection is now brought up to date with a new introduction by Richard Sorabji. New generations of scholars will benefit from this reissuing of classic...
by Charles P. Nemeth
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

In A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas, Charles P. Nemeth investigates how, despite their differences, these two figures may be the most compatible brothers in ideas ever conceived in the theory of natural law. Looking to find common threads that run between the philosophies of these two...

Slow Philosophy

Reading against the Institution

by Michelle Boulous Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for thinking about reading in philosophical...
by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Kenneth Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015

Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belonged to a group of young poets who embraced Hellenistic forms to forge a new literary style, the so-called...
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative...
by Lev Manovich
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

Software has replaced a diverse array of physical, mechanical, and electronic technologies used before 21st century to create, store, distribute and interact with cultural artifacts. It has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination - a universal language through...

Human Rights and Democracy

The Precarious Triumph of Ideals

by Professor of Government Todd Landman
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour. Todd Landman offers...
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