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This insightful and wide-ranging volume traces the genesis of international intellectual thought, connecting international and global history with intellectual history.

In this 2006 book, Nadler explains the background to Spinoza''s thought and the dialogues in which he was engaged.

A compelling contribution to ''science and religion'' debates, showing how early modern thinkers reconciled naturalism with a providential world view.

In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when more nuclear test bombs were detonated than in any other year in history, Rachel Carson released her own bombshell, Silent Spring, to challenge society's use of pesticides.

How do we write about magic?

This book shows how absolute naturalism, deciphering nature without reference to God, emerged from the inheritance, dynamics and debates of orthodox culture.

The story of Devil from antiquity to the present.

What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean?

A profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works *; Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost ';psychic' and magical powers *; Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, accepting instead the titles of magician, alchemist, or--in the case of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo--witch.

Early modern almanacs have received relatively little academic attention over the years, despite being the first true form of British mass media.

How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy?

Aesthetics is no longer merely the philosophy of perception and the arts.

Excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates.

This book investigates theories of linear perspective in classical antiquity.

This book, first published in 2006, evaluates Kuhn''s most influential ideas using theories developed by cognitive scientists.

This collection of essays offers an original interpretation of the tradition of German Idealist thought.

This is the first wide-ranging analysis of Alain Badiou's use, development and transformation of the concept of history.

A groundbreaking history of the roots of modern terrorism, ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East.

How did African-American slaves view their white masters?

In 1963, Dick Portillo built a 6' x 12' trailer with no running water or bathroom and opened a simple hot dog stand in Villa Park, Illinois.

Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th and 17th centuries through to the present day.

During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences.

Mad Men's Don Draper has nothing on Fred Goldberg, and this memoir is the real story of mad men in a very mad world This celebrated ad man cut his teeth in the late 1960s with the legendary agency Young & Rubicam, took over operations at Chiat/Day as COO for almost 7 years, and then founded his own firm, Goldberg Moser O'Neill.

This vintage book was published in 1912 by the Yogi Publication Society.

This book considers how art actually works, how the various art forms connect with the world of ordinary human experience.

This book offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius'' highly influential doctrine of natural law and natural rights.

Practices associated with the culture of scholarly reading have been developed over many centuries and annotations themselves have become the subject of study, either as additional elements in connection with the original texts or as documents in their own right.

Bringing together Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patocka, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the central role that questioning plays in phenomenology.

In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy.

A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world s preeminent living philosophers The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the meaning of human life, and of the place of death in life.

A fresh look at the impact of Quentin Skinner''s The Foundations of Modern Political Thought.

HThis book describes how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s.

A guide to the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans.

Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in the travel industry.

Between the years of 1898 and 1926, Edward Westermarck spent a total of seven years in Morocco, visiting towns and tribes in different parts of the country, meeting local people and learning about their language and culture; his findings are noted in this two-volume set, first published in 1926.

Calling for a revival of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant, Kenneth Rose overcomes the forgetfulness of being through contemplative ontology.

This stimulating study of Charlotte Bronte's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought.

Long before we began to speak of "e;public intellectuals,"e; the ideas of "e;the public"e; and "e;the intellectual"e; raised consternation among many European philosophers and political theorists.

For anyone looking to understand Chinese philosophy, here is the place to start.

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher who has influenced twentieth-century intellectual history via such thinkers as Heidegger, Jaspers, Ortega y Gasset, and Max Scheler, is subjected to careful analysis in this book.

Excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates.