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PaperbackEngels9780367565428
26-8-2024
This study is an analysis of the high point and subsequent decline of modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period, the book examines the ways that modernist criticism’s discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367565411
23-3-2022
This study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period—which will expand the remit beyond the canonical texts—the book examines the ways that modernist criticism’s discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest. Meer
GebondenEngels9781409400189
28-11-2013
Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completely under Western hegemony in the modern age? Meer
GebondenEngels9781409428589
28-9-2014
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781032923192
14-10-2024
Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completely under Western hegemony in the modern age? Meer
PaperbackEngels9781032927381
14-10-2024
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Meer
GebondenEngels9780802087188
14-6-2005
onbekendEngels9780521744508
18-12-2008
Where did we come from? Before there was life there had to be something to live on - a planet, a solar system. During the past 200 years, astronomers and geologists have developed and tested several different theories about the origin of the solar system and the nature of the Earth. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691092584
8-8-2002
GebondenEngels9780521801546
19-3-2001
This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521805360
19-3-2001
This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415837347
28-11-2016
Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367868284
10-12-2019
Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780299283841
19-1-2012
GebondenEngels9781041155027
19-11-2025
This accessible yet profound work traces two pivotal movements that defined our modern world: the rise of Puritan ideals that birthed concepts of liberty, equality, and democracy, and the subsequent emergence of secular society that challenged religious authority. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780786442881
31-3-2009
Analyzes Donaldson's role as a modern writer who uses the fantasy genre to discuss situations and predicaments germane to the modern world. This book provides the reader with a discussion about the need for imagination, responsibility and acceptance to resolve such problems as alienation, pollution, disease and despair. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781685901004
24-6-2025
GebondenEngels9780521580090
11-12-1997
This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions at the centre of Russian modernism. Meer