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This study investigates how medieval intellectuals compared their own cultures with others. It aims to establish Cultural Comparisons as an area of medieval studies by looking at some of the outstanding texts, mainly from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries.

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Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies, with Shakespeare-based films serving as an ideal model for the ongoing transformations of many disciplinary fields.

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The book analyses the history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and traces the many situations, images, motifs and sources for this experience of unbounded violence that characterizes our times.

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The father of existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work.

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The first English translation and analysis of a 1793 text by Karl von Dalberg (17441817) in defence of enlightened absolutism against Kantian criticisms.

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A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known worksEuthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republicunabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff.

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An anthology of Chinese philosophy that covers its entire historical development. It provides selections from various thinkers and schools in every period - ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary - and includes in their entirety some of the important classical texts. It deals with the fundamental, and technical aspects of Chinese thought.

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Here are the chief riches of more than 3,000 years of Indian philosophical thought-the ancient Vedas, the Upanisads, the epics, the treatises of the heterodox and orthodox systems, the commentaries of the scholastic period, and the contemporary writings. Introductions and interpretive commentaries are provided.

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An anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza which presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the "Ethics". It also includes selections from other works by Spinoza, and an introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy.

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These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience in mind, and the first to be translated by a scholar with expertise in both modern epistemology and philosophy of language.

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Examines the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property. This book tells the story of the birth of modernity and of the philosophies of culture that arose in the wake of the Enlightenment.

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A study of the collective belief in the end of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation. The author argues that this real psychological force is vitally important for our times, and offers a radical alternative to catastrophe through understanding the meaning of these scriptures.

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Proceedings of the 1982 Colloquium in Cerisy-la-Salle, France.

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Patocka begins by presenting to his listeners a reading of the concept of the body in the history of western thought.

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A translation that allows the simplicity and vigor of the Greek diction to shine through.