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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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You can't separate football from the man.

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.

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.

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.

Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems.

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography.

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.

On 22 July 2012 Bradley Wiggins made history as the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France.

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

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

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

Budapest has always been an important place.

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

Millions of America's youth dream of playing major league baseball or in a college bowl game on New Year's Day.

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.

How do you invent an Olympic sport?

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 ?

First published in 1937, this volume offers an overview of witchcraft and its practices and history, written by Montague Summers.

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

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.

The Wimbledon champion's early life in his own words'With Andy, the sky's the limit.

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.

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This book explores the political ideas of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, which led to the break-up of the Restoration state of the 'united' Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Tracing Austrian intellectual life from Maria Theresa to Hitler's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, this innovative book offers a precise and engaging account of Austrian intellectual history since the Enlightenment.

John Dee (1527-1609) war ein vielseitiger Gelehrter der Renaissance, dessen Name untrennbar mit den Geheimnissen der henochischen Sprache und der spirituellen Kommunikation verbunden ist.