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Racine: Phèdre
This introductory study presents Racine’s Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary...
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Mann: Doctor Faustus
In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany’s role in European culture and history since the...
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Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period
This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the...
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Keynes’s Philosophical Development
In this compelling book, John B. Davis examines the change and development in Keynes’s philosophical thinking, from his earliest work through to...
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Platonism and the English Imagination
This is the first compendious study of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers used Platonic themes...
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An Introduction to Kant’s Ethics
This is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant’s ethics available. It approaches the moral theory via the political...
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Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
The employment of mythological language and imagery by an Epicurean poet - an adherent of a system not only materialist, but overtly hostile to myth...
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The Cambridge Companion to Locke
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together...
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The Poetics of Personification
Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater...
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The Poetics of Mind
In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand...
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Hegel’s Social Philosophy
This book provides an authoritative account of Hegel’s social philosophy at a level that presupposes no specialised knowledge of the subject....
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Nadine Gordimer
The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century...
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Hegel’s Social Philosophy
This book provides an authoritative account of Hegel’s social philosophy at a level that presupposes no specialised knowledge of the subject....
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An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker
This is a lively and engaging introduction to the contentious topic of Nietzsche’s political thought. It traces the development of Nietzsche’s...
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The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
This book constitutes the first sustained, comprehensive, and rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism as expounded in the work...
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Art
This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche’s philosophy of art, combining exegesis, interpretation and criticism in a judicious balance. Julian...
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The Cambridge Companion to Hume
David Hume is, arguably, the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology,...
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Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
Thinking and writing about the past has always been of critical importance to the way that any culture or civilization views itself and its role in...
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Pascal and the Arts of the Mind
This book studies the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in three very different areas of his work: mathematics and...
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The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a...
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The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised...
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
According to Rousseau, the best relationship between unequals is one of benificence, giving, receiving and repaying benefits. This book addresses the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range...
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