Literary theory

Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills.

C.

Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development.

C.

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre.

Alasdair MacIntyre's 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy.

Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history.

C.

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker.

W.

"Das Märchen ist gleichsam der Kanon der Poesie - alles poetische muß märchenhaft sein.

Empfehlung für die Anlage und die äußere Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Manuskripte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Titelangaben von Schrifttum.

A critical analysis of Karl Marx's Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries.

For 2,000 years, the standard philosophical model of knowledge was that it could be defined as a justified true belief.

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Hamid Dabashi's 1997 work Theology of Discontent reveals a creative thinker capable not only of understanding how an argument is built, but also of redefining old issues in new ways.

Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay "e;Modern Moral Philosophy"e; is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills.

Aristotle's Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle himself.

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker.

Alasdair MacIntyre's 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy.

A guide to making new sense of the world, critically and generously.

One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines.

Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century.

What were the achievements of the 'angry' writers who emerged in the fifties?

Der Band liefert eine wissenschaftliche Anleitung zur Analyse von Prosatexten und zur philologischen Erkenntnis.

C.

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Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon.

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Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation.

Cuando se analiza la historia de las ideas, todo sucede como si, desde la invención de la imprenta, la oralidad hubiera perdido parte de su valor.

Gilbert Ryle's 1949 The Concept of Mind is now famous above all as the origin of the phrase "e;the ghost in the machine"e; - a phrase Ryle used to attack the popular idea that our bodies and minds are separate.

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre.

Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy.

Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century.

Franz Boas's 1940 Race, Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline, collecting the articles and essays that helped make Boas known as the 'father of American anthropology.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important.

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe.

Rene Descartes's 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy is a cornerstone of the history of western thought.

Aristotle's Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle himself.

Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology.

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important.

Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century.

Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay "e;Modern Moral Philosophy"e; is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills.

Franz Boas's 1940 Race, Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline, collecting the articles and essays that helped make Boas known as the 'father of American anthropology.

The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers' clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion.