Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge-yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character-the Nibelungenlied is the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. The Klage
Originally published separately, Weber's 'Science as a Vocation' and 'Politics as a Vocation' stand as the classic formulations of his... Læs mere
Awarded the 1986 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. This work on colour features a chapter, 'Further Thoughts: 1993', in which the author revisits the dispute between colour objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of colour vision.
The Wanderer's Hvamal features Jackson Crawford's complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hvaml, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius manuscript.
Presents Grube's translations. This title includes a number of footnotes along with a bibliography.
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda
This edition includes the entire surviving corpus attributed to Plato in antiquity. In addition to the texts, it contains introductions to the works, discussion on the chronology of... Læs mere
Confessions .' -Scott MacDonald, Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies, Cornell University