Philosophy
Philosophy from Greece and Rome to medieval and modern thought.
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The Atmospheric "We": Moods and Collective Feelings [Paperback]
Tonino Griffero (Author)
£26.99ISBN: 9788869773334
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Not yet published - available for pre-order
What contribution can the atmospherological approach make to the debate on collective feelings? In answering this question, the book provides a brief introduction to the so-called "atmospheric turn", examines the complex emotional "games" to which... .... Learn More -
Ingenuity in the Making: Materials and Technique in Early Modern Art and Science [Hardback]
Richard J. Oosterhoff (Editor); José Ramón Marcaida (Editor); Alexander Marr (Editor)
£47.00ISBN: 9780822946885
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience, discourse and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examini... .... Learn More -
The Core of Learning: The Philosophical Writings of N.F.S. Grundtvig [Hardback]
Edward Broadbridge (Author)
£52.00ISBN: 9788772192376
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: N.F.S. Grundtvig: Works in English
The Core of Learning presents the philosophical framework of N.F.S. Grundtvig’s educational, poetic, theological, and political writings. In each of these fields he made a major contribution to the formation of modern Denmark. He situates humanity... .... Learn More -
The Earrings of God: The Absurd Among Us [Hardback]
Fortunato Pasqualino (Author); Gabriel Lahood (Author)
£89.00ISBN: 9781463243593
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
Volume: 20
Life is full of absurdities, and human misperception of such absurdities leads to a state of unrest and fear that require meaning and direction for a happy life. F. Pasqualino addresses here samples of existential absurdities, and discusses soluti... .... Learn More -
The Phenomenology of Wind and Atmospheres [Paperback]
Tadeshi Ogawa (Author); Lorenzo Marinucci (Editor)
£12.99ISBN: 9788869773112
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Tadashi Ogawa brings together the ancient East Asian idea of ki (
face="MS Gothic">気) and standpoints of European philosophy. Wind, atmosphere and breathing are formless, invisible and impermanent – yet also constantly move be... .... Learn More -
Imaginaries in Geometry [Paperback]
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (Author)
£9.99ISBN: 9788869773105
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Philosophy
This is the first complete English translation of Pavel Florensky’s original and ambitious attempt to arrive at a geometric representation of imaginary numbers, in a context that had already captured the attention of other mathematicians, includin... .... Learn More -
Mythology and Nation Building: N.F.S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries [Hardback]
Sophie Bønding (Editor); Lone Kølle Martinsen (Editor); Pierre-Brice Stahl (Editor)
£46.00ISBN: 9788771846263
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Stories of gods, heroes and monsters permeated discourses of national selfhood in the nineteenth century. During this tumultuous time, Europe’s modern nations arose from the misty waters of long-forgotten national pasts – or so was the perception ... .... Learn More -
The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920: Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease [Paperback]
James F. Stark (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966494
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the... .... Learn More -
The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871 [Paperback]
Efram Sera-Shriar (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966487
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Victorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. But the observational practices that characterized the study of human diversity developed from the established sci... .... Learn More -
Science and Societies in Frankfurt am Main [Paperback]
Ayako Sakurai (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780822966463
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century saw science move from being the preserve of a small learned elite to a dominant force which influenced society as a whole. Sakurai presents a study of how scientific societies affected the social and political life of a city... .... Learn More
