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The Shabti collections.
: "This volume is one of a series of catalogues on the shabti collections in museums in the North West of England"--T.p. verso. : xiv, 500 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9780956627155
Egyptian art at Eton college : selections from the Myers Museum /
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Catalog is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Myers Museum, Eton College, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, held at Eton College, Windsor, Sept. 20, 1999-June 30, 2000 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 26, 2000 - Jan. 21, 2001. :
vii, 64 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm. :
Bibliography : page 64. :
0810965445 (alk. paper : Abrams)
0870999214 (alk. paper)
The return of the repressed : Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha /
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This study analyzes mythic narratives, found in the 8th century midrashic text Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer (PRE), that were excluded, or 'repressed', from the rabbinic canon, while preserved in the Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple period. Examples include the role of the Samael (i.e. Satan) in the Garden of Eden, the myth of the Fallen Angels, Elijah as zealot, and Jonah as a Messianic figure. The questions are why these exegetical traditions were excluded, in what context did they resurface, and how did the author have access to these apocryphal texts. The book addresses the assumptions that underlie classic rabbinic literature and later breaches of that exegetical tradition in PRE, while engaging in a study of the genre, dating, and status of PRE as apocalyptic eschatology.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004180611 :
1384-2161 ; :
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Anthologies of historiographical speeches from antiquity to early modern times : rearranging the tesserae /
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Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters' orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.
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1 online resource (xi, 546 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004341869 :
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Haecceities.
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Haecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction is both an artistic and philosophical examination of the limits of Abstraction in art and of kinds of radical identity that are determined in the identification of those limits. Building on his work Subjects and Objects , Strayer shows how the fundamental conditions of making and apprehending works of art can be used, in concert with language, thought, and perception, as 'material' for producing the more Abstract and radical artworks possible. Certain limits of Abstraction and possibilities of radical identity are then identified that are critically and philosophically considered. They prove to be so extreme that the concepts artwork, abstraction, identity, and object in art, philosophy, and philosophy of art, have to be reconsidered.
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Description based upon print version of record.
10.2 Dualities and Identities. :
1 online resource. :
9789004338449 :
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Selected writings on ethics and politics /
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Celebrated today for his groundbreaking work in logic and the foundations of mathematics, Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) was best known in his own time as a leader of the reform movement in his homeland (Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire). As professor of religious science at the Charles University in Prague from 1805 to 1819, Bolzano was a highly visible public intellectual, a courageous and determined critic of abuses in Church and State. Based in large part on a carefully argued utilitarian practical philosophy, he developed a non-violent program for the reform of the authoritarian institutions of the Empire, which he himself set in motion through his teaching and other activities. Rarely has a philosopher had such a great impact on the political culture of his homeland. This volume contains a substantial collection of Bolzano's writings on ethics and politics, translated into English for the first time. It includes a complete translation of the treatise On the Best State , his principal writings on ethics, an essay on the contemporary situation in Ireland, and a selection of his Exhortations, dealing with such topics as enlightenment, civil disobedience, the status of women, anti-Semitism and Czech-German relations in Bohemia. It will be of particular interest to students of central European philosophy and history, and more generally to philosophers and historians of ideas.
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1 online resource (368 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789401204002 :
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