Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England

This book considers the ideological development of English Catholicism in the sixteenth century, from the complementary perspectives of history, theology, and literature. Lucy Wooding argues that Erasmian humanism had laid the foundations for Catholic reformation in...
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Parution : 2000-10-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Aristotle on Meaning and Essence

David Charles presents a study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. These interconnected views are central to Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. They are also highly relevant to current...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

Conrad Leyser examines the formation of the Christian ascetic tradition in the western Roman Empire during the period of the barbarian invasions, c.400-600. In an aggressively competitive political context, one of the most articulate claims to power was made,...
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Parution : 2000-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  National Identity and Political Thought in Germany

This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. During the decade or so before the war, the German Empire was challlenged openly by both...
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Parution : 2000-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Poverty and Undernutrition

A large share of the population in many developing countries suffer from chronic undernutrition. In this book, Professor Svedberg provides a detailed comparative study of undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the two worst affected areas, and provides...
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Télécharger le livre :  Caricature and French Political Culture 1830-1848

Charles Philipon (1800-1862) was the founder of the satirical illustrated press in France. With the newspapers he owned and directed, La Caricature and Le Charivari, he led an unprecedentedly coherent and vitriolic campaign of disrespect against King Louis-Philippe and...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-09-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Emotions

Peter Goldie opens the path to a deeper understanding of our emotional lives through a lucid philosophical exploration of this surprisingly neglected topic. He illuminates the phenomena of emotion by drawing not only on philosophy but also on literature and science. He...
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Parution : 2000-09-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Ideal Code, Real World

What are appropriate criteria for assessing a theory of morality? In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker begins by answering this question, and then argues for a rule-consequentialist theory. According to rule-consequentialism, acts should be assessed morally in terms...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-09-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Emotion and Peace of Mind

Richard Sorabji presents a ground-breaking study of ancient Greek views of the emotions and their influence on subsequent theories and attitudes, pagan and Christian. The key questions are ones that concern everyone: what is emotion, and how does one cope with one's own...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-08-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Explaining Value

Explaining Value is a selection of the best of Gilbert Harman's shorter writings in moral philosophy. The thirteen essays, originally published between 1967 and 1999, are divided into four sections, which focus in turn on moral relativism, values and valuing, character...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-08-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Calvinism on the Frontier, 1600-1660

This is the first book to examine one of Europe's largest Protestant communities in Hungary and Transylvania. It highlights the place of the Hungarian Reformed church in the international Calvinist world, and reveals the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-08-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism

Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1913), often described as the founder of pragmatism. These themes concern how we are able to investigate the world rationally; and, as...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Human Knowledge

Barry Stroud has since the 1970s been one of the most original contributors to the philosophical study of human knowledge; this volume presents the best of his essays in this area. More than half of the essays are concerned with identifying clearly the question or issue...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Development of Agrarian Capitalism

This is an important new scholarly study of the roots of capitalism. Jane Whittle's penetrating examination of rural England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries asks how capitalist it was, and how and why it changed over the century and a half under scrutiny. Her...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-05-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660-1828

This wide-ranging and original book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Church of England in the long eighteenth century. It explores the nature of the Restoration ecclesiastical regime, the character of the clerical profession, the quality of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-04-20

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Télécharger le livre :  God and Goodness

Hugh Rice explains why belief in God need not be seen as a strange or irrational kind of belief, but can be a natural extension of our ordinary ways of thinking. First he argues that it is rational to believe that the universe exists just because it is good that it...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-04-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Respect, Pluralism, and Justice

Respect, Pluralism, and Justice is a series of essays which sketch a broadly Kantian framework for moral deliberation, and then use it to address important social and political issues. What does it mean to respect humanity in a diverse world? Must respect be earned, and...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-03-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Reason's Nearest Kin

How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? Reason's Nearest Kin is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made towards answering these...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-03-16

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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of the Republican Citizen

What does it mean to be Chinese? How did the major political events of the early 20th century affect the everyday lives of ordinary people in China? This book uses a wealth of new sources, including newspapers, memoirs, interviews, and photographs, to look at the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-03-16

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