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“thomas pfau”

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  • Incomprehensible Certainty

    Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image

    by Thomas Pfau ...
    Thomas Pfau’s study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke.Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the “image” (eikōn) as the essential ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Minding the Modern

    Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge

    by Thomas Pfau ...
    In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency—will, person, judgment, action—from antiquity through Scholasticism and on to eighteenth-century moral theory ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lessons of Romanticism

    A Critical Companion

    Edited by Thomas Pfau, Robert F. Gleckner ...
    Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology—in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context—ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Romanticism and Modernity

    Edited by Thomas Pfau, Robert Mitchell ...
    Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period - typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era" constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic, economic, and political changes long in the making accelerated dramatically. Due in part to the ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Electric Vehicles in Shared Fleets

    Mobility Management, Business Models, and Decision Support Systems

    by Kenan Degirmenci, Thomas M Cerbe, Wolfgang E Pfau ...
    The electrification of shared fleets offers numerous benefits, including the reduction of local emissions of pollutants, which leads to ecological improvements such as the improvement of air quality. Electric Vehicles in Shared Fleets considers a holistic concept for a socio-technical system with a focus on three core areas: integrated mobility solutions, business models for economic viability, ... Read more

    $85.79 CAD

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  • The Life of the Mind

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  • Does God Exist

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