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  • Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero

    Serier serie Knowledge Communities
    The act of drawing a line or uttering a word is often seen as integral to the process of making art. This is especially obvious in music and the visual arts, but applies to literature, performance, and other arts as well. These collected essays, written by scholars from diverse fields, take a historical view of the richness of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) in order to draw out ... Læs mere

    516,51 kr.

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    Oversat af Adam Kotsko ...
    Serier serie Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Læs mere

    118,86 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    Serier Bog 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Læs mere

    360,80 kr.

  • Serendipities

    Language and Lunacy

    af Umberto Eco ...
    Oversat af William Weaver ...
    Serier serie Italian Academy Lectures
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much ... Læs mere

    136,22 kr.

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    Serier serie Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Læs mere

    340,86 kr.

  • The Omnibus Homo Sacer

    Serier serie Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse.This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this ... Læs mere

    841,86 kr.

  • Esotericism and the Academy

    Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

    Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late antiquity that ... Læs mere

    312,69 kr.

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Læs mere

    Før 125,11 kr. Nu 104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music

    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Music
    From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and ... Læs mere

    360,80 kr.

  • The Wedding Feast of the Lamb

    Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist

    Oversat af George Hughes ...
    Serier serie Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    A philosophical and theological study of the eucharist in the Catholic Church.Emmanuel Falque's The Wedding Feast of the Lamb represents a turning point in his thought. Here, Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theology's "backlash" against philosophy.By attending closely to the incarnation and the eucharist, Falque develops a new ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    af Jörg Rüpke ...
    Serier Bog 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Læs mere

    208,75 kr.

  • The History of Scepticism

    From Savonarola to Bayle

    This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a valuable stimulus to current historical research. In this updated version, he has revised and expanded throughout, and has added three new chapters, ... Læs mere

    384,77 kr.