LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steven rendall

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  • The Philosophical Dialogue
    Vittorio Hosle / Steven Rendall
    Hosle covers the development of the philosophical dialogue beginning with Plato to the late twentieth century, providing a taxonomy and doctrine of categories. ...
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    215,59 €

  • Perpetual Euphoria
    Pascal Bruckner / Steven Rendall
    How happiness became mandatory-and why we should reject the demand to 'be happy'Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion-one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn’t yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a libera...
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    36,30 €

  • The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy
    Alain Bresson / Steven Rendall
    A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world’s leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grou...
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    59,64 €

  • In the Land of a Thousand Gods
    Christian Marek / Steven Rendall
    A monumental history of Asia Minor from the Stone Age to the Roman EmpireIn this critically acclaimed book, Christian Marek masterfully provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. Blending rich narrative with in-depth analyses, In the Land of a Thousand Gods shows Asia Minor’s shifting orientation between East and West an...
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    47,88 €

  • A Short History of German Philosophy
    Vittorio Hösle / Steven Rendall
    The story of German philosophy from the Middle Ages to todayIn an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hösle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science, from the Middle Ages to today. A Short History of German Philosophy addr...
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    33,34 €

  • Musica Naturalis
    Philipp Jeserich / Michael J Curley / Steven Rendall
    A critical study of the relationship between poetics and music theory in medieval culture and aesthetics.Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L’Art de Dictier, famously casts verse...
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    107,45 €

  • The Philosophical Dialogue
    Vittorio Hosle / Steven Rendall
    No overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel’s two-volume study was published in 1895. In The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics, Vittorio Hösle covers the development of the genre from its beginning with Plato to the late twentieth-century work of Iris Murdoch and Paul Feyerabend. Hösle presents a taxonomy and a doctrine o...
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    38,26 €

  • Simon Bolivar
    Michael Zeuske / Lisa Neal / Steven Rendall
    All over Latin America, and especially in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez, Latin America’s liberator, Simón Bolívar, is a political idol and symbol of that continent’s new political self-confidence. The legends about him remain alive and have been the basis for many political speeches, plays, and fictional works. Michael Zeuske, one of the world’s leading experts on Bolívar, exami...
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    90,50 €

  • Women in the Islamic World
    Irene Schneider / Steven Rendall
    This book describes and analyzes the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past and present. Starting with Sharia regulations and their applications in societies throughout history, Schneider observes and pinpoints the obstacles and opportunities women have faced, and still face, in various Islamic societies. The last chapter addresses women’s participation in...
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    27,41 €

  • Simon Bolivar
    Michael Zeuske / Lisa Neal / Steven Rendall
    All over Latin America, and especially in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez, Latin America’s liberator, Simón Bolívar, is a political idol and symbol of that continent’s new political self-confidence. The legends about him remain alive and have been the basis for many political speeches, plays, and fictional works. Michael Zeuske, one of the world’s leading experts on Bolívar, exami...
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    27,93 €

  • The Tyranny of Guilt
    Pascal Bruckner / Steven Rendall
    Why the West must overcome its guilty conscience to foster a better global futureFascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism-the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become a ...
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    30,76 €

  • Perpetual Euphoria
    Pascal Bruckner / Steven Rendall
    How happiness became mandatory-and why we should reject the demand to 'be happy'Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion-one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn’t yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a libera...
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    39,09 €

  • Art of the Modern Age
    Jean-Marie Schaeffer / Steven Rendall
    This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.Jean-Marie Schaeffer, one of France’s leading aestheticians, explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, He...
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    60,54 €

  • Washington and Rome
    Michael Zöller / Steven Rendall
    To an outside observer, the religious culture of the United States might seem astonishing. For German sociologist Michael Zöller, American Catholicism is more than that; it is a contradiction in terms. With its historical consciousness, emphasis on institutionalized structures, and combination of skepticism and assurance of grace, Catholicism seems to embody the very opposi...
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    39,01 €

  • Shipwreck with Spectator
    Hans Blumenberg / Steven Rendall
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    22,94 €