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  • After Augustine

    The Meditative Reader and the Text

    by Brian Stock ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained ... Read more

    $60.47 CAD

  • After Augustine

    The Meditative Reader and the Text

    by Brian Stock ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained ... Read more

    $51.83 CAD

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  • The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

    Edited by Richard Popkin ...
    Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides lively, in-depth, and up-to-date historical analysis of all the key figures, schools, and movements of Western philosophy.The Columbia History significantly ... Read more

    $42.47 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: Voltaire

    by John Gray ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A prolific letter writer, he was also the author of over 2,000 books and pamphlets, including the novel Candide, which criticises and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Aristotle's Children

    How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages

    by Richard E. Rubenstein ...
    A true account of a turning point in medieval history that shaped the modern world, from "a superb storyteller" and the author of When Jesus Became God ( Los Angeles Times).Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten—until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle.The ... Read more

    $17.27 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

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  • A Very Brief History of Eternity

    by Carlos Eire ...
    From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternityWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations?In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos ... Read more

    $27.62 CAD

  • The New Science of Politics

    An Introduction

    by Eric Voegelin ...
    Series series Walgreen Foundation Lectures
    "Must be considered one of the most enlightening essays on the character of European politics that has appeared in half a century… powerful and vivid."— Times Literary Supplement"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete ... Read more

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

    $37.43 CAD

  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    by Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • The Kingdom and the Glory

    For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

    by Giorgio Agamben, Matteo Mandarini ...
    Translated by Lorenzo Chiesa ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The renowned philosopher expounds on the ideas he introduced in Homo Sacer with this analysis of the theological foundations of political power.In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of an economy of divine life. It was as if the Trinity amounted to nothing more than a problem of ... Read more

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  • Enlightenment Volume 1

    by Peter Gay ...
    Series Book 1 - Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more sophisticated and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD