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In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabat addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

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Can you turn a hairpin into a house?

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future.

In The Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896, Yvan Lamonde traces the province's political and intellectual development from the British Conquest to the election of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.

A century ago, a prospector discovered gold at Ontario's Kirkland Lake and a son was born to British immigrants in Saskatchewan.

This book traces the origins, life and death of Administrative Science in Italy as an academic discipline between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran.

On The Deal Maker: How William C.

In this text Stacey traces the formative impact of Seneca''s political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government.

An edition of Hume''s profoundly influential work together with some of his other writings.

As head football coach at Florida State, Bobby Bowden has won two national championships and compiled an astounding resume of all-time credentials.

English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade.

Vacillating between the longue duree and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term "e;history"e; means that the field risks compartmentalization and estrangement.

Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience.

John McDowell's philosophical ideas are both influential and comprehensive, encompassing philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics and the history of philosophy.

The Reformed Church historian and orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) is a key figure in the history of Arabic and Islamic studies in early modern Europe.

An overview of the life, work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century.

How Molyneux''s Question shaped the conflict between empiricism and idealism in nineteenth-century British, American and Australian landscape painting and criticism.

Why is it important to consider the human today?

A rich intellectual history of the reinvention of France''s colonial empire in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Is time out of joint?

A comprehensive, authoritative, innovative and accessible account of Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West.

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought.

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight ';offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh' (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.

This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture.

Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, with his work spanning theory of knowledge, metaphysics, philosophy of art, philosophy of history, and social and political philosophy.

East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger's writings.

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225–74).

The Culture Cultis an acerbic critique of that longing widespread in society today to ?

The secret of extreme wealth creation The Outsider's Edge reveals the one common denominator the world's richest self-made people share.

This important survey of alchemical symbols and doctrines sets forth the mysterious worldview and teachings of the practitioners of the "e;royal art.

Alain Badiou is arguably the most important and original philosopher working in France today.

This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau.

Where "e;Victorianism"e; once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms.

This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.

Traditions throughout the world and across history have tackled fundamental questions about the human condition.

Hannah Arendt is regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.

In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing.

The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence.

Using in-depth examples of 'magical' practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word 'magic' was used widely in late antique texts as part of polemics against enemies and sometimes merely as a term for other people's rituals.