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The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.06Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers,... -
Thought: A Philosophical History Panayiota Vassilopoulou 9780367770945
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €53.16Of all the topics in the history of philosophy, the history of different forms of thinking and contemplation is one of the most important, and yet is also relatively overlooked. What is it to think... -
Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements by Proclus
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €62.08The description for this book, Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691020907Author ProclusFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint... -
Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome by Maud W. Gleason 9780691137346
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €40.88The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly... -
Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts by Peter T. Struck 9780691162263
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.77Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck... -
Alexandrine Teaching on the Universe R. B. Tollinton 9781032892535
RRP: €74.96Booksplease Price: €66.45Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed:... -
The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €93.43Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naive, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a... -
Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz by Dr. John Marenbon
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.82From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the... -
Augustine's Confessions: A Biography by Garry Wills
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.74From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what... -
Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy by Seth Lerer 9780691611310
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €46.83This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate... -
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism by Alexander Knysh 9780691191621
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.10A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the presentAfter centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the... -
The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization by Teofilo F. Ruiz 9780691124131
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to the endless succession of wars and other man-made... -
Jewish Philosophy A-Z by Na Na 9781403972651
Booksplease Price: €33.38In an accessible style and format, Jewish Philosophy A-Z covers everything from Philo to Levinas and explores non-Jewish thinkers, such as Plotinus and Heidegger, who have had an important influence... -
The Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought by Krzysztof Michalski
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it... -
Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes by Robert Lamberton 9780691604176
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.06Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven... -
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism by Alexander Knysh
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.89A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.12An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
Music and the Ineffable by Vladimir Jankelevitch 9780691090474
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €43.66Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a... -
Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth by Leopold Damrosch 9780691615547
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €57.20In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or... -
Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes by Robert Lamberton 9780691656274
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €101.66Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven... -
Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism by Dylan M. Burns
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €65.81In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a... -
The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization by Teofilo F. Ruiz
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.74This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to the endless succession of wars and other man-made... -
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo by Horapollo Niliacus
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems,... -
Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death: Studies in Musical Iconology by Kathi Meyer-Baer 9780691621111
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €57.56The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored... -
Melville's Quarrel With God by Lawrance Roger Thompson 9780691623719
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €61.73In this radical reinterpretation, Mr. Thompson argues that Melville, seeking to disguise his agonized conviction of the cruelty and malice of God, consistently satirized Christian doctrine. He... -
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.74A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about... -
Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by Peter Brown
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €38.20A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historiansThe end of the ancient world was long regarded by... -
Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge by Giuseppe Mazzotta
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €50.29In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with... -
The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind by Garth Fowden
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €40.88Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god,... -
![Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category by Michael Allen Williams](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/926537/926248/9780691005423__15652.1687833985.jpg?c=1 "Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category by Michael Allen Williams")
Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category by Michael Allen Williams
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €56.88Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology, Jungian theory, or the idea of "secret teachings" in ancient Judaism and Christianity has found "gnosticism" compelling. Yet the term... -
Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz by Dr. John Marenbon 9780691142555
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €41.23From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.97An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €77.48This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John... -
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780691203171
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €69.02The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly... -
Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition by Kathy Eden
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €31.81When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins... -
Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays by Paul Oskar Kristeller
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €59.01Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making... -
Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography James Olney 9780691614908
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €56.88James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 5-6 by Barrie Fleet 9781780938936
Booksplease Price: €48.54Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's Categories, but that Porphyry and... -
A Short History of Medieval Philosophy by Julius R. Weinberg
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €44.39In this brief book the author examines the central doctrine of important Christian, Jewish, and Muslim philosophers and shows the contributions of medieval thought to present-day philosophy. Intended...