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Past and Thoughts: An Annotated Critical Edition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Alexander Herzen’s Past and Thoughts was the most influential memoir in tsarist Russia. Passionate and insightful, Herzen watched both eagerly and warily... Læs mere
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Commentary on Plotinus (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation of Marsilio Ficino’s immense commentary on the works of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism.
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What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance Italy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In early modern Italy, a wave of Inquisition trials prosecuted radical dissenters for their claims that Adam and Eve had... Læs mere
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Flourishing Fasts: Vegetarian Sects in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Societies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, “vegetarian sects,” that... Læs mere
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the... Læs mere
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This Craft of Verse (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967–1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose forms, literary history, translation theory, and philosophical... Læs mere
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Other Traditions (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures on John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John... Læs mere
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The Shape of Content (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In six wide-ranging lectures on art history, the problems of form, and his own career, celebrated twentieth-century activist-painter Ben Shahn explores the labor of artistic creation, the confines of formal instruction, and the realization of a genuine artistic voice.
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Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The "Ianua Indica" of Ignazio Arcamone SJ (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Ianua Indica (Indian Gateway) of Ignazio Arcamone S.J. (ca. 1615–1683) is the first comparative grammar of two South Asian vernaculars, Konkani and Marathi. This volume offers a... Læs mere
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The Image of the European in African Art (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Image of the European in African Art-a companion to The Image of the Black in Western Art series-is profusely illustrated, including little-known works,... Læs mere
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Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Luna Sabastian traces the evolution of Hindutva since the 1920s, arguing that it is a form of fascism. Influenced by Euro-American race thought, but also... Læs mere
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Progress and Regression (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the tradition of the great dialecticians, Rahel Jaeggi revitalizes the idea of progress by confronting its opposite: regression. Reckoning with growing inequality, ecological... Læs mere
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