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The Beginning and the End of Religion
The common view that religion is something quite separate from politics, art, science, law and economics is one that is peculiar to modern Western... Les mer
The Triumph of Odysseus
The Triumph of Odysseus is part of the highly successful Reading Greek series. It presents the complete Greek text of Books 21 and 22 of Homer’s... Les mer
Robert Boyle
In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627–91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted ‘Nature’... Les mer
Idealism and Freedom
Henry Allison is one of the foremost interpreters of the philosophy of Kant. This new volume collects all his recent essays on Kant’s theoretical... Les mer
The Psychology of Freedom
This book presents an alternative theory of the will - of our capacity for decision making. The book argues that taking a decision to act is... Les mer
Writing Rome
The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza
Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza has been one of the most inspiring and influential philosophers of the modern era, yet also one of the most difficult... Les mer
Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy
This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these... Les mer
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In... Les mer
Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker
Using Kierkegaard’s later religious writings as well as his earlier philosophical works, David Gouwens explores this philosopher’s religious and... Les mer
Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism
This unusually accessible account of recent Anglo-American philosophy focuses on how that philosophy has challenged deeply held notions of... Les mer
Alexis: The Fragments
This is the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on... Les mer
Leibniz
In the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his... Les mer
Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker
Using Kierkegaard’s later religious writings as well as his earlier philosophical works, David Gouwens explores this philosopher’s religious and... Les mer
Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan’s theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject... Les mer
Medieval Reading
This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary... Les mer
La Mettrie
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and... Les mer
Comte after Positivism
This book provides a detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte. Apart from offering an... Les mer
The Sublime
This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic... Les mer
The Annals of Tacitus: Book 3
Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus’ Annals were edited and annotated in two earlier volumes of this series (1972 and 1981) by the late F. R. D. Goodyear. Now... Les mer
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole were philosophers and theologians associated with Port-Royal Abbey, a centre of the Catholic Jansenist movement in... Les mer
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
This collection brings together thirteen essays by some of the most respected contemporary scholars of Schopenhauer’s aesthetics from a wide... Les mer
Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan’s theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject... Les mer
History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts
These seminal essays introduce the reader to the interdisciplinary approach of New Testament scholarship which is affecting the way the Book of Acts... Les mer