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This study brings to light the original concept of the imaginary that emerges from Merleau Ponty's thought.

After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages.

This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of nonhuman relations.

Immanuel Kant gehört zu den bedeutendsten Denkern der Aufklärung und prägte mit seinen revolutionären Ideen über Erkenntnis, Moral und Freiheit die Philosophie bis heute.

Ferran Sáez Mateu traza un recorrido desde la solitaria torre de Montaigne en el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad, marcada por tecnologías que nos fascinan aunque siempre exigen algo a cambio.

A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals.

Think, pray, and reflect through the stories of Jesus life, death, and resurrection.

Mucha gente cree que sus acciones y experiencias están conectadas vía la ley del karma.

This book provides engaging insights into the evolution and scope of the critical study of creative writing.

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Think, pray, and reflect through the stories of Jesus life, death, and resurrection.

This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of twentieth-century philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.

Strawsons Text diskutiert die Frage, wie verantwortlich wir für unser Handeln sind: Oft machen wir einander wegen unseres Handelns Vorwürfe.

During the 1940s, Greece experienced some of the most significant moments in the contemporary history of the country, defining the socio-political environment to this day.

This study brings to light the original concept of the imaginary that emerges from Merleau Ponty's thought.

This book provides engaging insights into the evolution and scope of the critical study of creative writing.

Philosophy in the medieval Latin West before 1200 is often thought to have been dominated by Platonism.

An easy, jargon-free introduction to stoicism that covers the full range of stoic thought in a single compact volume Divided into short chapters that can be read in brief sittings, What Is Stoicism?

An easy, jargon-free introduction to stoicism that covers the full range of stoic thought in a single compact volume Divided into short chapters that can be read in brief sittings, What Is Stoicism?

This book offers the first substantial account of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's significant influence on Kant's ethics.

Der Schwerpunkt dieses Hefts versammelt drei Beiträge zur Globalgeschichte des politischen Liberalismus.

In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger developed a way of considering human existence as 'being there', a process of interrelationships with aspects of the environment in which the very process itself constitutes the essence of human being.

"Esperem una trucada, la fressa de la clau al pany, el proper acte i la rialla després de la broma.

In A Moth to the Flame, the first novel about the life of the Sufi Poet Rumi, based on original sources in both Farsi and English, we discover the key moments that shaped his genius.