Ancient

ISBN: 9781571139917
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 198
In recent years, Johann Gottfried Herder has been the focus of much interest in the English-speaking world. While he was long disregarded, current scholarship in both German and English is revisiting his importance as an early theo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781571139603
Published by : Camden House
Series: Mind and American Literature
Recent book-length studies of Thoreau have focused either on his place in the history of the natural sciences or have applied political principles to his works. None, however, has fully addressed what ecocritic Rebecca Solnit calls "the Thore... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781571134974
Published by : Camden House
Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato's idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781571135186
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 109
The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study aims to reassess this question, particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781580463874
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy
Volume: Volume 9
The concept of community plays a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in many philosophical contexts: the category of community intr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781571134516
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 71
For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary canon is firmly established, but he has always been one of Germany's most contentiously discussed aut... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780905205052
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Aristotle for a number of intellectual disciplines from Antiquity into the Middle Ages and beyond. However, Aristotle's philosophical ideas - both in themselves and as they were re-worked by lat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781580462105
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
Volume: Volume 14
This edition of Bishop Joseph Butler's [1692-1752] complete works is the first newly edited version to appear in a century, and is the only one to include a single, analytic index to the whole works. The editor's introduction prese... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781580462044
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
Volume: Volume 12
The Enlightenment continues to be associated with the secularization and de-Christianization of intellectual culture in the West. And yet, religious thought played a far greater role in the emergence of the Enlightenment than is of... .... Learn More