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Demosthenes: On the Crown
Demosthenes’ speech On the Crown is one of the finest artistic achievements of Greek prose. Delivered in an Athenian court in 330 BCE, and...
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Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation
Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals need not see their task as being for or against religion, but as one of...
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Suetonius: Diuus Claudius
The first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing...
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Irenaeus of Lyons
Eric Osborn’s book presents a major study of Irenaeus (125–200), bishop of Lyons, who attacked Gnostic theosophy with positive ideas as well as...
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Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation
Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals need not see their task as being for or against religion, but as one of...
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Suetonius: Diuus Claudius
The first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing...
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Thucydides and Internal War
In this book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of...
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Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays
Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today....
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Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays
Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today....
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Kant, Art, and Art History
Kant, Art, and Art History is the first systematic study of Kant’s reception of and influence on the visual arts and art history. Arguing against...
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The Theory of Contract Law
Although the law of contract is largely settled, there appears to be no widely-accepted comprehensive theory of its main principles and doctrines or...
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Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy
The recent opening of the archive of the former Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome (the office of the ‘Inquisition’) has yielded an...
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Emotional Reason
How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm argues that...
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Reading History in Early Modern England
This book focuses on the after-life of historical texts in the period between the arrival of printing in England and the early eighteenth century....
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The Foundations of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets
This book presents a unified approach to the foundations of mathematics in the theory of sets, covering both conventional and finitary (constructive)...
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Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority
Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is a landmark both in democratic political theory and in the history of biblical interpretation....
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Physicalism and its Discontents
Physicalism, a topic that has been central to modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics, is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time...
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The Victorian Parlour
The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender...
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Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others
To what degree should we rely on our own resources and methods to form opinions about important matters? To what degree should we depend on various...
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The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France
The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France examines the evolution of portraiture after the advent of photography. Heather McPherson focuses on...
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A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory
This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis....
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Practical Rationality and Preference
What are preferences and are they reasons for action? Is it rational to cooperate with others even if that entails acting against one’s...
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New Testament Greek
This book offers a selection of texts with vocabulary. Its purpose is to help readers understand and enjoy the New Testament in Greek. There are...
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Conrad and Impressionism
In this book, John Peters investigates the impact of Impressionism on Conrad and links this to his literary techniques as well as his philosophical...
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