Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades.
This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features - institutional and imaginary - and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality.
Directly challenging the prevailing interpretation, Corey Beals explores the ideas of twentieth-century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's concept of love, love's relation to wisdom, and how love makes the Other visible to us.
In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science within the humanistic context from which it originated.
This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Montesquieu and the Old Regime offers a bold reinterpretation of Montesquieu's intellectual and ideological legacy, challenging conventional views that label him as a conservative apologist.
In this landmark volume of the Sather Classical Lectures, The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity, Albrecht Dihle traces how ancient Greek and early Christian thinkers grappled with the problem of human volition.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
The Divine Goddess I love her souls that she is she is the female connectedness to others of her that the soul all in a union together making the Divine Goddess in Action meaning the Females working together to help God and God seeds to protect that the Divine Goddess take care of God and God is happy with Her the Divine Goddess and the love felt by her and She knows so God knows the Divine Goddess Love's God as God Loves the Divine Goddess so God looks to Her and the Divine Goddess looks to God so God looks to the Divine Goddess.