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  • Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

    by Nancy S. Struever ...
    Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. Although the range of theoretical approaches and methodologies represented here is diverse, the essays collectively explore the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History

    by Nancy S. Struever ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    In the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily, as a mode of inquiry investigating not simply the mechanics of production and reception of discourse, but the psychological factors of reason and passion engaged by the assertion, modification, and contest of beliefs and dispositions of the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Reorientations of Western Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance

    by F. Edward Cranz, Nancy Struever ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F. Edward Cranz focused specifically on Nicholas of Cusa. The present selection has an equally clear focus, but a far broader scope: it brings together materials on his major thesis, of a fundamental reorientation of the categories of thought in the Latin West, c. 1100 AD, a thesis that dominated his work from the 1960s onwards. The volume ... Read more

    $329.99 CAD

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    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

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  • Time and Narrative: Volume 1

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pellauer ...
    Series series Time and Narrative
    The first volume in the eminent philosopher's three-part examination of time and narrative, exploring their relationship in the context of historical writing.Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than ... Read more

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  • The Essence & Topicality of Thomism

    by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. ...
    Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., explains why Thomism is the solution to the present crisis of Modernism in the Church. The problem: The indications of the current crisis in the Church have “been not of a crisis of faith, but of a very grave malady of the intellect, which conducts itself on the tracks of liberal Protestantism and through relativism to absolute skepticism.” Fr. Garrigou ... Read more

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  • The Use of Bodies

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology.Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the most influential works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of studies investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents ... Read more

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  • Modern Philosophy

    From 1500 CE to the Present

    by Brian Duignan ...
    Series series The History of Philosophy
    Concerned more with rationality, human nature, and human interaction with society and the world than the theological questions of the Middle Ages, contemporary philosophy has advanced study of the limits of the human mind. This insightful volume traces the evolution of present-day Western philosophy and the diverging methods of inquiry that continue to inform a wide range of disciplines. ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Rites

    A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century

    by Richard Kieckhefer ...
    Series series Magic in History
    Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

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  • Cicero: Catilinarians

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape foreverafter the way he defined himself and his statesmanship. The four speeches he delivered during the crisis show him at the height of his oratorical powers and political influence. Divided between ... Read more

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  • Spinoza for Our Time

    Politics and Postmodernity

    by Antonio Negri ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. Responding to a resurgent interest in Spinoza's thought and its potential application to contemporary global issues, Negri demonstrates the thinker's special value ... Read more

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