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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown 9780691161778
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $33.55Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure... -
Alexandrine Teaching on the Universe R. B. Tollinton 9781032892535
RRP: $81.26Booksplease Price: $77.50Originally 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 Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought by Krzysztof Michalski
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.56The 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: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.31Although 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... -
The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization by Teofilo F. Ruiz
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07This 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: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.48Written 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: $77.40Booksplease Price: $64.36The 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: $83.85Booksplease Price: $69.85In 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... -
Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism by Dylan M. Burns
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $71.34In 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 Physical World of Late Antiquity by Samuel Sambursky
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $53.77Sambursky describes the development of scientific conceptions and theories in the centuries following Aristotle until the close of antiquity in the sixth century A.D. Originally published in 1987. ... -
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism by Alexander Knysh
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.76A 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.81An 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: $67.08Booksplease Price: $47.33Vladimir 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: $77.40Booksplease Price: $66.91In 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: $122.55Booksplease Price: $110.20Although 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... -
Jewish Philosophy A-Z by Na Na 9781403972651
Booksplease Price: $36.18In 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 Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $106.19Aristotle'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
Booksplease Price: $34.96From 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07From 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... -
Plato: An Introduction by Paul Friedlander
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $84.62Contents: I. Eidos. II. Demon and Eros. III. Beyond Being. IV. The Academy. V. The Written Work. VI. Socrates in Plato. VII. Irony. VIII. Dialogue. IX. Myth. X. Intuition and Construction. XI... -
Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice by Richard Valantasis
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $60.42This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These texts--all in new English translation and many appearing in English for the first time--represent... -
Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy by Seth Lerer 9780691611310
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.25This 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: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96A 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99This 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... -
Ptolemy's Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life by Jacqueline Feke 9780691210391
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most... -
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07A 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... -
Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition by Kathy Eden
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.44When 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: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Written 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... -
The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems by Stephen Halliwell
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $68.82Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $66.91Peter 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: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.08James 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... -
Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $83.99This 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... -
Essays on Giordano Bruno by Hilary Gatti 9780691148397
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.15This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were... -
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780691203171
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $80.70The 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... -
Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems by Ann E. Berthoff 9780691621319
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.25Intellectual power and subtlety are as important to a definition of Marvell's style as grace of feeling, says the author of this highly original study, which illuminates the philosophical character... -
Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958 - Updated Edition by C. G. Jung
Booksplease Price: $31.62In 1932, world-renowned physicist Wolfgang Pauli had already done the work that would win him the 1945 Nobel Prize. He was also suffering after a series of troubling personal events. He was drinking... -
Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by Peter Brown
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $43.37A 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: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.47In 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $50.37Sage, 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,... -
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Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category by Michael Allen Williams
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.08Most 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...