\nThe Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical…

Of more than seventy works by Varro (116 27 BCE) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin…

• Rok vydání 1966

A translation of De Civitate Dei.…

Plotinus (204/5 270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple…

This is a collection of notable deeds and sayings which Valerius Maximus compiled during the reign of Tiberius. The…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

\nPhilostratus \"the Elder\" or \"the Athenian\" (2nd to mid-3rd c.) and Eunapius (ca. 345-415) provide fascinating…

• Rok vydání 2020

The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian…

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and many of his letters have survived. Published in three volumes, Letters to Friends…

\nSchooling has become less about learning and more about the scramble for good grades, high test scores, and spotless…

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of…

Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems…

This is a biography of Martin Heidegger chronicling his ideas, with their debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and his…

This work attempts to show that the natural and accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble…

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter…

• Rok vydání 2010

How is life related to the mind? This book explores the gap between biological life and consciousness. It argues that where…

• Rok vydání 1990

Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work.…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told…

• Rok vydání 1990

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination…

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The second edition of An Introduction to Literary Chinese incorporates recent developments in linguistics and has been…

The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…

Offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary…

Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old…

• Čeština

This volume originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s.…

• Rok vydání 2005

Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael…

• Rok vydání 2004

Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction,…

\nCollected here are \"Franz Kafka,\" \"Karl Kraus,\" and \"The Author as Producer,\" the meditation \"A Berlin Chronicle,\"…

• Rok vydání 2016

From Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create ways of being, as individuals and as a…

• Rok vydání 1990

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least…

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• Rok vydání 2004

What makes a great teacher great? Which professors do students remember long after graduation? This book, based on a 15-year…

Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the adopted daughter of an Eskimo…

During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…

\nWritten in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential…

A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is…

Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic,…

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…

Presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the…

This volume presents the visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino. His Platonic evangelizing was…

First published in essay form in 1956, this book presents Sellars' entire philosophical system and his attack on the Myth of…

The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled…

• Rok vydání 2001

The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius is seen as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism. Pierre Hadot here…

A re-interpretation of American constitutional history, planned as the first of three volumes. Ackerman examines the…

• Rok vydání 2002

Marsilion Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology,…

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), considered the philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A…

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Income inequality, displaced and imprisoned populations, destruction of land and water: today’s dislocations cannot be…

• Rok vydání 1999

Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" has become a classic. The author has now revised the original…