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Shakespeare's Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory
ISBN: 9781138655225 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare s drama. The discourse of folly s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims a fool s truth, after all, is spoken by a fool. Yet, as this study demonstrates, Shakespearean folly is not the... This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare s drama. The discourse of folly s w... |
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746,33 zł |
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Descartes' Philosophical Revolution: A Reassessment
ISBN: 9781349506286 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception."
Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps...
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194,97 zł |
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
ISBN: 9780691172231 / Angielski / Miękka / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, which Pocock calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the works of Machiavelli,... Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. P... |
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158,12 zł |
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Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos
ISBN: 9780190658205 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We can hear the universe " This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) had detected a "transient gravitational-wave signal." What LIGO heard in the morning hours of September 14, 2015 was the vibration of cosmic forces unleashed with mind-boggling power across a cosmic medium of equally mind-boggling expansiveness: the transient ripple of two black holes colliding more than a billion years ago. The confirmation of gravitational waves sent tremors through the scientific community, but the public...
"We can hear the universe " This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity ...
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254,98 zł |
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Science and the Human Comedy: Natural Philosophy in French Literature from Rabelais to Maupertuis
ISBN: 9781442651500 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New scientific theories, methods, and objectives exert subtle and often unnoticed influences on literary creation. The developments of the attitudes and aspirations of French scientists between the Renaissance and the Revolution and the impact of these new outlooks on French literature form the theme of this book by an authority in the interdisciplinary treatment of science and literature. Implicit in the author's exploration is the view that in the development of the scientific revolution there was no overall design, but rather random growth; human beings turn up at various moments, some... New scientific theories, methods, and objectives exert subtle and often unnoticed influences on literary creation. The developments of the attitude... |
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133,77 zł |
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Machiavelli's Politics
ISBN: 9780226434803 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the Discourses on Livy to argue that Machiavelli is actually a passionate advocate of republican politics who saw the need for occasional harsh measures to maintain political order. Which best characterizes the teachings of the prolific Italian philosopher? With Machiavelli's Politics, Catherine H. Zuckert turns this question on its head with a major reinterpretation of Machiavelli's...
Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark politic...
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211,30 zł |
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ARS ALCHEMICA - Foundations of Practical Alchemy: Being a Prima in the Paracelsian Arte of Solve et Coagula
ISBN: 9781905297986 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To be an alchemist, traditionally one must gain access to the Philosophers' Garden - but to advance into the garden one must be an alchemist. ARS ALCHEMICA: Foundations of Practical Alchemy provides essential instruction to assist the student to gain ingress into this sacred realm. This work teaches the practical laboratory alchemy of the past masters and for the first time reveals many of their secrets, including the volatilization of the salts and the mysteries of the sal ammoniac salts. These are a major key to many operations of the arte without which... To be an alchemist, traditionally one must gain access to the Philosophers' Garden - but to advance into the garden one must be an alchemist. <... |
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98,67 zł |
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Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker
ISBN: 9780190690120 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatments of Adam Smith, Schliesser's book treats him as a systematic philosopher. Smith was a giant of the Scottish Enlightenment with polymath interests; Schliesser thus explores Smith's economics and ethics in light of his other commitments on the nature of knowledge, the theory of emotions, the theory of mind, his account of language, the nature of causation, and his views on methodology. He places Smith's ideas in the context of a host of other...
Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatm...
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411,02 zł |
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The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War
ISBN: 9780226462967 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major reinterpretation of the early life of Rene Descartes
Major reinterpretation of the early life of Rene Descartes
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167,96 zł |
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The Virtues and Vices of Speech
ISBN: 9780674987500 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Giovanni Pontano, best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The De sermone, translated into English here for the first time as The Virtues and Vices of Speech, provides a moral anatomy of aspects of speech such as truthfulness, deception, flattery, gossip, bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule.
Giovanni Pontano, best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The De sermone, translated into English here for...
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162,27 zł |
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
ISBN: 9781453732007 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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35,67 zł |
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Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker
ISBN: 9780190088798 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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167,17 zł |
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Contemplating Craft Freemasonry: Working the Way of the Craftsman
ISBN: 9781603020244 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,88 zł |
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Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process
ISBN: 9781474448086 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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411,77 zł |
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72 in His Name: Reuchlin, Luther, Thenaud, Wolff and the Names of Seventy-Two Angels
ISBN: 9781644692448 / Angielski / Twarda / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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460,48 zł |
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The Metaphysics of the Material World: Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza
ISBN: 9780190070229 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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391,52 zł |
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Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals
ISBN: 9780199603749 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) is a landmark work in the history of moral philosophy. This volume presents new interpretative essays which offer a section-by-section study of the Enquiry, and of its relation to Hume's other writings on ethics, epistemology, religion, aesthetics, and emotion.
Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) is a landmark work in the history of moral philosophy. This volume presents new interpretat...
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162,29 zł |
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Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals
ISBN: 9780199603732 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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469,54 zł |
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The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning
ISBN: 9780521177122 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book serves as a key resource for students and scholars seeking an introduction to Italian Renaissance intellectual life. Focusing on philosophy and literature, and Latin and Italian sources, it brings together recent scholarship, makes an original contribution to the field, and works beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
This book serves as a key resource for students and scholars seeking an introduction to Italian Renaissance intellectual life. Focusing on philosophy ...
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170,90 zł |
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Robert Greystones on Certainty and Skepticism: Selections from His Works
ISBN: 9780197266595 / Angielski / Twarda / 587 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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713,35 zł |