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  • The Affirmations of Reason

    On Karl Barth’s Speculative Theology

    by Sigurd Baark ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the speculative core of Karl Barth’s theology, reconsidering the relationship between theory and practice in Barth’s thinking. A consequence of this reconsideration is the recognition that Barth’s own account of his theological development is largely correct. Sigurd Baark draws heavily on the philosophical tradition of German Idealism, arguing that an important part of what ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Crisis and Reorientation

    Karl Barth’s Römerbrief in the Cultural and Intellectual Context of Post WWI Europe

    Edited by Christine Svinth-Værge Põder, Sigurd Baark ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book uses Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe. One of the most influential books in twentieth-century protestant theology, Der Römerbrief found Barth arguing that the crisis of the time was grounded in an even more profound crisis that ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

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  • The World in a Book

    Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

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    A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—al-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of ... Read more

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  • Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present

    by Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, Malini Roy ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel ... Read more

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  • Translating Travel

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    by Loredana Polezzi ...
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  • Fifty Years after Faulkner

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  • George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture

    by Emma Liggins ...
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    Courtliness and Individual Identity

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  • Charles Knight

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