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  • Homer

    The Very Idea

    de James I. Porter ...
    The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual person, a myth, or merely a shared idea. Rather than attempting to solve the mystery of this ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Nietzsche and Literary Studies

    Edición de James I. Porter ...
    Nietzsche and Literary Studies tackles the literary implications of Nietzsche's philosophy and the philosophical implications of his approaches to style and expression. The book offers a complete guide to Nietzsche's writings, which in turn draw on two and a half millennia of literary and philosophical history, reaching back to Heraclitus, Plato, and the Cynics and from there to Diderot, the ... Leer más

    $95.99 USD

  • Constructions of the Classical Body

    Edición de James I. Porter ...
    Series series The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism
    Classical scholarship has traditionally neglected the prominence of the body in antiquity. Constructions of the Classical Body theorizes that the study of antiquity is necessarily a study of the body, and that attention to this fact can lead to a much-needed shift in the way in which classical studies are approached today. This volume aims to reestablish the relevance of the problem of the body at ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Time, History, and Literature

    Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

    de Erich Auerbach ...
    Traducido por Jane O. Newman ...
    Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Sublime in Antiquity

    de James I. Porter ...
    Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns. Once we train our sights on these patterns a radically different prospect on the sublime in antiquity ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Jews and the Ends of Theory

    de James I. Porter, Svetlana Boym, Elliot R. Wolfson, Martin Land, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, Yehouda Shenhav, Hannan Hever, Sarah Hammerschlag, Martin Jay, Sergey Dolgopolski0, Andrew Bush1, Jay Geller2 ...
    Theory, as it’s happened across the humanities, has often been coded as “Jewish.” This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School) or stereotypical (psychoanalysis as the “Jewish Science”) in order to show how certain problematics of modern ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Classical Pasts

    The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome

    Edición de James I. Porter ...
    The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current understanding of the term. The book seeks not to arrive at a final definition, but rather to provide a cultural ... Leer más

    $55.49 USD

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  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 35

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    Edición de Paul Maurice Clogan ...
    Series Libro 35 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Leer más

    $123.99 USD

  • The Origin of the Political

    Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?

    de Roberto Esposito ...
    Traducido por Vincenzo Binetti, Gareth Williams ...
    Series series Commonalities
    In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others”— as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Dance Discourse

    Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World

    de Karin Schlapbach ...
    Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance discourse of this period and explores the conceptualization of dance across an array of different texts, from Plutarch and Lucian of ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Nietzsche

    Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

    de Walter A. Kaufmann ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    de Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD