Peter Lang: 4879 books
Harmonious Disagreement
Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian...
The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany
17501950 From Winckelmann to Nietzsche from Nietzsche to Beckmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany refutes the stereotypical image of Germany as the country of romantic but unworldly poets and thinkers. In 1750, an aesthetic revolution takes place in Germany, at the beginning of which stands J.J. Winckelmann. The romantic movement (Schiller, Hölderlin, Kleist)...
by Nicolae Râmbu
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In his unmistakable style, Friedrich Nietzsche approached the issue of all classes of values, not only the moral ones. The author presents Nietzsche as a philosopher of values par excellence by analysing vital and economic values, religious and political values, moral and aesthetic values, and, in...
The Vanished Musicians
Jewish Refugees in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant impact on multicultural Australia....
LEurope et la question énergétique
Les années 1960/1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Au-delà des deux dates charnières de 1973 et 1979, il importe de considérer les évolutions qui ont touché l’Europe de l’ouest comme des mutations nécessaires dans un monde de moins en moins bipolaire. À travers ses épreuves et ses hésitations, la Communauté européenne construit malgré...
Manna Bread from Heaven
Jn 6:22-59 in the Light of Ps 78:23-25 and Its Interpretation in Early Jewish Sources
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The author presents a new approach to the study of manna, which does not concentrate only on one particular representation of the bread from heaven (especially Ex 16). Additionally, he investigates the interconnections between Ps 78:23-25, Wis 16:20-13; 19:21 and Jn 6:22-59 and he explores the new...
The Power and Value of Music
Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors responsible...
A System That Excludes All Systems
Giacomo Leopardi's «Zibaldone di pensieri»
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
For many decades Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri has been seen as a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions whose final expression is to be found in the published poems (the Canti) and satirical dialogues (the Operette morali). The conceptual consistency of the work was thereby...
Testaments, Donations, and the Values of Books as Gifts
A Study of Records from Medieval England before 1450
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Why were books considered valuable in the Middle Ages? This study focuses on medieval testaments and donation records from England before 1450 to investigate this question. The primary sources and datable records from before and after the Norman Conquest show that contemporary attitudes can be examined...
Syntactic Dislocation in English Congregational Song between 1500 and 1900
A Corpus-based Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
A famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. The aim of this study is to analyse syntactic dislocation in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 and to examine its motivations and developments....
Dimensions of the Logical
A Hermeneutic Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Drawing on the work of Georg Misch, this work seeks to give back to the Word its original fullness of meaning. Misch’s notion of a logic of life considers the Word in the plenitude of its great powers. The question of life leads the inquiries undertaken in this study via Misch’s anthropological...
Metaphysics
Selected Problems of Metaphysics and Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The presented text offers a basic overview of the terms and topics of the very wide philosophical discipline called metaphysics. The text includes, besides an overview of individual problems, reflections to consider and recommended literature. Readers will become familiar with the basic terms (metaphysics,...
Cartesian Rationalism
Understanding Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Descartes gave the human intellect the central role in rationalism, his system therefore is a variant of intellectual rationalism. Other forms of rationalism had emerged in scholastic philosophy and the ancient philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. While Descartes had reservations with respect to all...
New Ages, New Opinions
Shaftesbury in his World and Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Interest in Shaftesbury is as lively and productive today as it ever was. Indeed, the past decade has seen a veritable international renaissance in studies of his work. The various theoretical approaches of which modern critics and scholars can avail themselves are reflected in the different new interpretations...