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This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of Heidegger's thought into English-language philosophical schools as well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by contemporary scholars.

This book investigates the emergence and development of a distinct concept of self-awareness in pre-modern Islamic philosophy.

Imagining the Witch explores emotions, gender, and selfhood through the lens of witch-trials in early modern Germany.

This volume contains thirty new essays by leading experts on British philosophy in the nineteenth century, and provides a comprehensive and unrivalled resource for advanced students and scholars.

The Nineteenth Century provides a broad, scholarly introduction to nineteenth-century philosophy.

'Genuinely empowering' Daisy Buchanan'An invaluable guide to surviving professional life' Viv Groskop'Comforting during these uncertain times' Yomi AdegokeAward-winning journalist and editor-in-chief Cate Sevilla has survived the messy, stressy and sometimes bizarre world of work - just.

Hume's Skeptical Crisis is a textual study of the shifts in perspective that unfold as Hume attempts to produce a complete science of human nature.

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft.

The essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin Americas most important contemporary theorists.

Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on cities.

Despite many encouraging developments in the field of animal-free technologies, well-defined animal models are still needed to study fundamental properties of human diseases and to develop new prophylactic and therapeutic treatments against human diseases.

Comprehensive account of Melissus of Samos and his contribution to the philosophy of monism in early Greek thinking.

This wide-ranging study offers a new interpretation of nationalism and the formation of European nations.

In this volume, first published in 2006, Alasdair MacIntyre examines some fundamental philosophical questions in this first of two volumes of selected essays.

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKIdeas defined the twentieth century: they and their reflections shaped practices, social life, knowledge, and governance.

This book, first published in 1996, is a translation of a fascinating work by one of the world''s great poets.

Patrick O'Connell is not a name usually associated with the likes of Lionel Messi, Pep Guardiola or Johan Cruyff, yet this is the man who saved FC Barcelona from financial ruin.

Magic can take many forms, whether it be a desire, a wish, or a spell.

Entries in this dictionary focus on the people, organizations, events, and ideas that have been significant in the slightly more than two centuries of political communication in this country.

This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

Evaluates to what extend rationalizing is rational and what the contribution of reason is to it.

Aesthetics is variously identified with the philosophy of art, the philosophy of criticism, and the philosophy of beauty.

Sacred Living for Each SeasonCelebrate life: What is sacred living?

No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville.

Definitive, broad-ranging reference work on Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoids).

Containing all of the key writings leading up to the publication of his Philosophical Essays in 1777, this volume presents complete works by Johann Nicolaus Tetens (1736-1807) in English for the very first time.

Anfang Januar 2018 stand Matthias Walkner auf dem (vorläufigen) Höhepunkt seine Ruhms: Der Salzburger gewann als erster Motocross-Fahrer Österreichs die legändere "Rallye Dakar" und sicherte sich einen Platz im Olymp des Motorsports.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular imagination.

This book presents a provocative new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche''s most important and most difficult work, Beyond Good and Evil.

Why has memory become such an important political tool in response to the challenges of modernity?

A major contribution to our understanding of seventeenth-century England, from one of its foremost historians.

This book is the first English-language study of the social, intellectual and institutional history of sociology and the social sciences in Hungary.

This Element serves as a guide to Wittgenstein''s notion of forms of life and the debates that it generated.

This book explores the theory and practice of Victorian liberal parenting by focusing on the life and writings of John Morley, one of Britain's premier intellectuals and politicians.

'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?

An inspiring memoir by England netball star and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Geva Mentor.

This book focuses on changing political thought in twentieth-century Brazil.

The use of female sideline reporters is the fastest-growing new aspect of televised broadcasts of professional and college football.

This book demonstrates that Rousseau offers a distinctive critical voice which is worthy of listening to.

When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria.

Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time.

A translation of Hegel''s ''Greater Logic'' which includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813) and Book III (1816).

How did African-American slaves view their white masters?

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.

Slavoj i ek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.

This collection comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays exploring developments in medieval philosophy from logic to ethics, metaphysics to theology.