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Barilli traces rhetoric from its Greek origins to today's media technologies, emphasizing its changing status as it impinges on ethics, politics, art, and philosophy within the larger history of Western culture.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

"First paperback edition, with a new preface and conclusion"--Title page verso.

(Hardback, Updated Edition)

"Arguing that philosophical and historical views of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was--and why it is still relevant today"--Dust jacket flap.

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For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. This glossary playfully explores the etymology and history of hundreds of idler-specific terms and phrases, while offering a foundation for a new mode of thinking about work and labor.

(Hardback)

In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine law and shows how early adherents to biblical tr

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(Hardback)

Explores textuality, writing, solitude, and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity.

(Paperback)

A book which raises all those tricky questions that children ask their teachers and parents, such as 'what is infinity' 'what is democracy' or even 'can I own a gun'