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Published 1997
Assent and argument : studies in Cicero's Academic books : proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenisticum (Utrecht, August 21-25, 1995) /

: Cicero's philosophical works are a rich source for the understanding of Hellenistic philosophy, and his Academic Books are of critical importance for the study of ancient epistemology, especially the central debate between the Academic sceptics and the Stoics. This volume makes Cicero's challenging work accessible to philosophers and historians of philosophy and represents the best current work in both fields. The ten papers published here are the work of leading authorities from North America, England and Europe; they were presented and discussed at the seventh Symposium Hellenisticum at Utrecht, August 1995, and deal with every aspect of the Academic Books , historical, literary and philosophical. Several papers make major contributions to the understanding of ancient scepticism and sceptical arguments, to the role of Socrates in later Greek thought, to the history of the Academy as an institution, and to the philosophical stance of Cicero himself.
: 1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789004321014 : 0079-1687 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2010
Word of God, Art of Man : the Qur'an and its creative expressions : selected proceedings from the International Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003 /

: xxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 0199238359

Published 1986
Surrealism in Egypt and plastic arts /

: 106 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portrait ; 20 cm. : Bibliography : pages 72-75.

Warfare and society in the ancient eastern Mediterranean : papers arising from a colloquium held at the University of Liverpool, 13th June 2008 /

: 100 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781407312088
1407312081

Traditional arts and crafts from Cairo /

: 155 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. : 9773050491

Published 2020
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience /

: Neuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet's experiments are discussed from this new perspective. Thirdly, the relationship between free will, causality and language is analyzed. This approach suggests that language grants the human brain a possibility to articulate a meaningful personal life. Therefore, human beings can escape strict biological determinism.
: 1 online resource : 9789004409965

Published 1998
A hundred years of fine arts in Egypt /

: 120 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

The friends of art and life /

: 10 page, 81 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm. : 9771495003

Published 2015
Machiavelli's Art of Politics.

: In Machiavelli's Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context. This study provides a nuanced view of the complexities of Machiavelli's thought by analyzing his classical background, taking into particular consideration the influence of Xenophon, and his view of the ideal ruler as someone who creates the conditions for a flourishing human life. In addition, Bárcenas explains why Machiavelli defends a republican political order that encourages citizens to live according to their own laws while serving a common good and revises his legacy through the writings of Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and Maurizio Viroli.
: Description based upon print version of record. : 1 online resource (173 pages) : 9789004298026 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2000
Egyptian art : principles and themes in wall scenes /

: 276 p., [59] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-275). : 977305232X

Cultural continuity in Islamic art and its impact on modern art /

: 295 pages : color illustration ; 30 cm. : Bibliography : pages 292-295. : 9773053237

Published 2008
The ancient city : new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world /

: "This publication results from an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, "Early cities: new perspectives on pre-industrial urbanism," held May 18-20, 2005, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC."
OCLC 183392067 : xvi, 405 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-394) and index. : 193469102x
9781934691021

Published 1971
African art : an introduction /

: 288 pages : illustrations, maps, plan ; 22 cm. : Bibliography : pages 275-279.

Published 2020
Knowledge, Art, and Power : An Outline of a Theory of Experience /

: In Knowledge, Art, and Power: An Outline of a Theory of Experience John Ryder presents an original theory of experience rooted in the American pragmatic naturalist philosophical tradition. The operative assumption of the book is that a clearer understanding of experience provides a richer conception of human being. Beginning with the Deweyan idea of experience as the mutually constitutive engagement of an individual with her environing conditions, the theory posits that there are three general dimensions that condition all of our experience - cognitive (knowledge), aesthetic (art), and political (power). All other constituents and forms of experience, such as language, emotions, ethics, religion, and others, are conditioned by these three general threads that define the fabric of experience and of human life.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004429185
9789004429178

Published 2014
Practicing pragmatist aesthetics : critical perspectives on the arts /

: This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such as film, sculpture, bio-art, poetry, the novel, cuisine, and various body arts. But it also attempts to provide a wider background for such studies by sketching the history of pragmatist reflection on the aesthetic and by discussing some of the main positions that this history has produced: the aesthetic conceptions of C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman (somaesthetics in particular), and others.
: 1 online resource (vi, 224 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789401210812 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2024
We Have Always Been Transcultural: The Arts as an Example /

: Wolfgang Welsch demonstrates for the first time that transculturality - the mixed constitution of cultures - is by no means only a characteristic of the present, but has de facto determined the composition of cultures since time immemorial. The historical transculturality is demonstrated using examples from the arts. While transculturality was often viewed with reservation where political, social, or psychological levels were at stake, it was rather welcomed and appreciated in the field of art. The book therefore demonstrates the historical prevalence of transculturality via all areas of art and does so with respect to all cultures and continents of our world.
: 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004697829

Published 2023
Under the Adorned Dome, Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India : Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series /

: These essays are the revised and updated version of four lectures given in the Yarshater Lecture Series, at SOAS in London in 2013. They concern some aspects of the arts from pre-modern Iran and India, namely, the "making of" of Persian illustrated manuscripts, the iconography of Kashan wares, the use and re-use of luster tiles in Ilkhanid Iran, and the glazed tiles made in three Indian sultanates (Delhi, Bengal and Malwa). These four topics share concepts of influence and impact, although inflected on different modes. The productions they embody represent many poles of influence, even if working on different scales, from the extensive diffusion of products, techniques, and systems to almost isolated productions.
: 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004549722

L'art arabe /

: Series title also at head of t.-p. : 316 pages, 1 ℓ. : illustrations (include plans) ; 21 cm.

Published 2009
The art of Hellenistic Palestine /

: ix, 139 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-136). : 9781407305868

Islamic art in detail /

: Series from jacket. : 144 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-141) and index. : 0714124281 : Sara.lib